jakerbug
01-08-2006, 06:16 PM
I want to be able to output the exact source code that I see when I click "View Source" directly onto the page I'm looking at. I've been trying for DAYS and I can't get it. Is it possible?
The goal is to have a user review the dynamically generated page they are looking at and then use "fopen" to take the source code from that page and create a static "index.html" file. I just can't figure out any good way with PHP, JavaScript (innerHTML???), or even XML (httprequest), or any combination of those.
I'm thinking if I can get that code exactly how it appears in the "View Source" or an "httprequest" into a text box on my page somehow, I'd be set to then pull the text from that text box and create the file with PHP. Am I that far off?
It seems to me like this should be relatively easy, but I'm so far off in the wrong direction that I don't even know where I went wrong.
If you buffered the output (ob_start() at the top of the page), then you could put the output into a text-area, or html_entities() it, instead of displaying it....
ob_start();
//The page as it is now
if($_GET['display']=='source') {
$output=ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
echo '<html><body><textarea>'.$output.'</textarea></body></html>';
//or
echo html_entities($output);
}
else {
ob_flush();
}
jakerbug
01-08-2006, 06:59 PM
I placed this code in the page:
<?php
ob_start();
echo "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN'>
<html>
<head>
<title>Personalized Template Selection for $company</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor='#9AA3B0'>
*****THE REST OF THE PAGE*****
</body></html>";
if($_GET['display']=='source') {
$output=ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
echo '<textarea>'.$output.'</textarea>';
}
else {
die( "Error");
}
?>
But I get my error message every time i try it. Can you see why?
Element
01-08-2006, 07:06 PM
<?php
ob_start(); // This should be at the top of the document before any HTML.
?>
<?php
$page_source = ob_get_contents(); // The contents of the page.
$source_output = "<textarea cols=\"400\" rows=\"20\">:source:</textarea>";
echo str_replace(":source:", $page_source, $source_output); // Had to use this because of the characters in the page source, not all pages need it this way but I had to for a page with alot of Javascript and such.
?>
<?php
ob_end_flush(); // this should be at the bottom of the document, under all the HTML.
?>
Thats what I use. Works perfectly.
jakerbug
01-08-2006, 07:17 PM
Works perfectly Element. Thanks. I think that's basically what GJay was getting at too, but I was just a little too dumb to implement it... :o
Hopefully I can figure it out from here...
Element
01-08-2006, 07:28 PM
The ob functions they were using didn't work for me, I had to simply use ob_end_flush() at the end when I was doing it.
Kurashu
01-08-2006, 11:17 PM
Or, instead of going through and using the buffer functions you can do this:
highlight_file(__FILE__);
http://us3.php.net/highlight_file
trib4lmaniac
01-09-2006, 06:44 PM
Or, instead of going through and using the buffer functions you can do this:
highlight_file(__FILE__);
http://us3.php.net/highlight_file
That woud print the PHP source.
marek_mar
01-09-2006, 07:04 PM
How about adding a "Content-Type: text/plain" header?
