how to load a php file to just display the contents of the file, not executing it?

how to load a php file to just display the contents of the file, not executing it?

I want to see the contents on a web browser. But I can't find a way to load without it executing t开发者_StackOverflowhe contents.

thanks

If you want nice colouring, try highlight_file().

If you're programming in php in order to view a PHP file, simply load the file into a string, then run it through htmlentities before displaying it. It will escape all the html special characters and cause it to be displayed literally.

A combination of fopen and fpassthru should do the trick. Don't forget to send appropriate headers first. Alternatively readfile.

If its just one large block, you could remove the tags..

otherwise, just rename the file to whatever.php.txt and load it in a browser..