[thelist] HOWTO read PHP source code into a textarea

[Keith Gaughan]

Michael Pemberton wrote:

> The code you would need is something like this:
> 
> <textarea>
> <?php
> echo implode('', file('nav.php'));
> ?>
> </textarea>
> 
> This is just a quick example, you can throw in some error checking and 
> such stuff yourself.

Slight correction:

<textarea>
<?php echo htmlentities(implode('', file('nav.php'))); ?>
</textarea>

Without the htmlentities() call, strange and nasty things could happen
because the < and > characters haven't been escaped.

K.