PHP reading a webpage Source vs Content

[Frantic]

When I use this code below:

<?php
 
  // Open a site and read the contents
  $read = fopen("http://www.gmail.com";, "r") 
    or die("Couldn't open file");
    
  // Read the bytes
  $contents = fread($read,10000000);
  
  // Display the contents
  echo "$contents";
?> 

I see the actual page..... How do I see just the source though?

[John]

It's been a while, but I believe $contents does contain the actual source code, its just when you echo it, the browser parses it.

Try a

PHP Code:

echo htmlentities($contents); 


If that doesn't work, you can always set the header to output text.

[Jordan]

You also seem to have an error on line 4:

$read = fopen("http://www.gmail.com";, "r") 

See your extra ";" at the end of gmail.com?

[TkTech]

It's been a while, but I believe $contents does contain the actual source code, its just when you echo it, the browser parses it.

Righto! Easy fix, echo "<pre>$contents</pre>";

[ETbyrne]

I didn't know that you could read PHP source code with other PHP scripts! Kind of scary actually because then there is no real way to hide MySQL passwords!

EDIT: I tried both of those methods and they just show the HTML.

[John]

Originally Posted by ETbyrne

EDIT: I tried both of those methods and they just show the HTML.

Thats what its suppose to do.

[ETbyrne]

Oh, ok I see.

[Jaan]

PHP Code:

<?php

  // Open a site and read the contents
  $read = fopen("http://www.yoursite.xxx", "r") 
    or die("Couldn't open file");
    
  // Read the bytes
  $contents = fread($read,10000000);
  
  $contents = htmlentities($contents);

  // Display the contents
  echo "<pre>$contents</pre>";
?>

here's your full script.. works perfectly

[TkTech]

I didn't know that you could read PHP source code with other PHP scripts! Kind of scary actually because then there is no real way to hide MySQL passwords!

WOW! Thats something completely different. You will NEVER be able to read a PHP source from another script over HTTP! EVER!

[ETbyrne]

Yeah the idea kind of scared me when I didn't read the first post correctly, but then I remembered how PHP works:

1. The user requests a page from the server.
2. If the page has PHP source code in it the server executes it.
3. The server sends the finished page to the user.

So the user never has a chance to see the source code.