Share your PHP Code... the EASY way

[fedoracore]

Have you ever wanted to share you PHP code w/ someone, but realized it's not as easy as "just go here and view source"? right, because the PHP is parsed, server-side, so no one will ever actually see the PHP source code (which comes in handy for hiding e-mail address from spam bots, by the way...)

But what happens when you want to share that code w/ a friend or forum?

Never fear-- P H P S is here!

the PHPS file extension (if and only if the hosting server is setup to accomodate it) will not only display the source-code w/out parsing it, but it should display it with highlighting, making it very easy to separate the html, comments, strings, reserved words, etc. for enhanced ease of viewing.

check out the page at FileXt.com for details

[CrYpTiC_MauleR]

You can enable this option by adding to your httpd.conf file or .htaccess file the following:

AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

That way any file that ends in .phps will be color coded and formatted for source viewing.

[VGR]

yes, and that's why I never turn this on. I prefer to make a copy under extension .txt and in a special directory (as efficient) so that I can master which source will be exposed and which ones will not ;-)
this is a lot easier than modifying httpd or .htaccess each time for allowing access to this and that but not that to that person etc

[fedoracore]

You can enable this option by adding to your httpd.conf file or .htaccess file

cool, so it's just as simple as that, huh?

that's good to know. i had no idea about the phps extension until only a few days ago. i've no immediate use for it, but i have definitely done the ol' html < pre > bit in the past for sharing php publicly (as appropriate w/ non private stuff...)

[VGR]

be warned also against this annoying possibility :

pretty-printed (highlighted, if you prefer ;-) code in the browser which would be copy-pasted to a text editor supporting single-byte-end-of-lines (ie, wordpad and not notepad) would perhaps end with text formatting in RTF format. I'm not sure. You would have to "save as..." and choose pure plain text to get rid of the formatting (colours).

This would be annoying.

personnally, I still find complete text files ready for downloading (and/or packed in a ZIP/TAR/GZ/RAR etc) far more convenient. This doesn't prevent you from showing parts of the code in syntax-coloured form, of course, but only for educationnal purposes IMHO.

regards