Read a config file without processing it?

[youradds]

Ok, basically what I am trying to do is (in PHP) read a config file, and then echo it out from a variable. What I am using is;

function edit_settings() {

$input = file("settings.inc.php");

         foreach ($input as $line) {

         $return = ereg_replace("\$", "\\$", $line);

         echo $return;;

         } // end foreach

}

As you can see I already tried to escape the $'s but backslashing them before echoing, but that didn't help. Is there actually a way to read a file, and then echo it without the code being processed?

Thanks

Andy

 

[mcvdmvs]

Just use fopen to open the file and fread, then output every line with the echo statement. Put htmlentities around it. mcvdmvs
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[Guest_imported]

Won't this just try and parse the variables and PHP code though?

Thanks

Andy