How to extract the raw PHP code from HTML page

[prince]

Hi
i would really appretiate if someone can help me tro find a way wherein i can extract the PHP code from a HTML file

 

[fortytwo]

Although this isn't a solution, I would go about it using regular expressions to match everything between the PHP delimiters, ie:

<?php

//code in here

?>

It shouldn't be too difficult as there are definite delimiters.

fortytwo
will@hellacool.co.uk

http://www.hellacool.co.uk

 

[Inssider]

Um it's not possible. PHP is a server-side language, so the server parses your code then returns a pure HTML (or javascript whatever depending on what client-side languages you've stuck in as well) file to the web browser, which is all it sees.

 

[fortytwo]

Yeah, it would have to be done server side so unless you have access to the raw files before they are parsed and sent to the browser you will not be able o view them.

Unless something goes wrong with PHP interpretation ;-)

fortytwo
will@hellacool.co.uk

http://www.hellacool.co.uk

 

[Inssider]

Hehe, like forgeting delimiters or echoing the whole script =]

 

[redsevens]

If you want to display the source code of your PHP page, you can use the

show_source()

function. For example, I created a page called viewsource.php that looks like this:

<?
$page = $HTTP_GET_VARS[&quot;src&quot;];
if ($page) show_source($page);
else echo &quot;&quot;;
?>

So when you enter

http://www.domain.com/viewsource.php?page=search.php

you get the source code for search.php, color-coded and everything!

This requires PHP4 as far as I've heard. Hope this helps!

 

[Inssider]

Hey cool. I didn't know that. Thanks!