Placing PHP output in an HTML file.

[cheesecaker]

This is probably some basic thing that I'm completely overlooking, but I have a PHP file that outputs some text. I'm going to use a simple file as an example:

[PHP]
<?php

$file = $_GET['file'];

highlight_file($file);

?>
[/PHP]

I'd like the highlighted code to show on an HTML page. Maybe a tag in which I could define the SRC to be "highlight.php?file=code.txt". I've tried iframes, but I'd like to avoid those.

Any ideas?

[pbmods]

Try using include. You can then output highlight.php directly into your page, rather than have the browser make two requests.

[Motoma]

What is the return value of highlight_file()? My suspicion would be that it is formatted HTML containing the source code for the file you specified. If this were the case, you would just print or echo it.

[cheesecaker]

Ah, nevermind, I solved it. The reason I was having problems was I couldn't figure out how to pass $_GET variables with include:

[PHP]<?php include('C:/Apache2.2/htdocs/textgen/highlight.php?file=textgen.php');?>[/PHP]

This does not work because PHP will search for a file named "highlight.php?file=textgen.php" on the local filesystem, which doesn't exist.

However, after reading php.net documentation, I learned that the only way to pass a script variables with $_GET is to use an HTTP address in the include statement. So:

[PHP]<?php include('www.example.com/textgen/highlight.php?file=textgen.php');?>[/PHP]

This does work. Thank you for the help, everyone.

[Motoma]

Glad you have found your solution. Thank you for posting it here, and come back anytime you have a question.