PHP echo HTML file

Question

i am trying to echo a html files contents from a php script. Quite simple implementation

$response=file_get_contents("second.html");

echo $response;

When i hit the html file directly all the content seems ok but when i get the echoed string it is different, The html contains javascript with utf8 strings and escape characters. It seems that "echo" is changing the string because i tried saving the $response string in a second html file and that appears ok also. My question is, is there a way to just plainly give the string with no processing.

Also it seems the echoed html works on firefox, but not on chrome, the file html works on both.

echo is not adding javascript or escape characters. Are you working inside of a framework? — kingcoyote
– kingcoyote, Commented Jun 20, 2012 at 0:12
You can combine those two lines into one by doing: readfile('second.html');. — Nathan Osman
– Nathan Osman, Commented Jun 20, 2012 at 0:18
I can try combining but i will need to process the html later on so that cant be an option. — Evan
– Evan, Commented Jun 20, 2012 at 0:24

somedev · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-20 00:35:33Z

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What do you get if you do:

var_export(get_magic_quotes_gpc());

Is it on? (true)

If so:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.disabling.php

or

$response = stripslashes(file_get_contents("second.html"));

answered Jun 20, 2012 at 0:35

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Evan Over a year ago

Magic quotes are on, and the second does not work, because as i said the string is read perfectly, i tried a file_put_contents before the echo and it was ok and different from the echoed string.

Ruan Mendes · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-20 00:42:54Z

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Could be that you're not telling the browser what encoding you're using?

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

answered Jun 20, 2012 at 0:42

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James P. Over a year ago

I'm in the same case. The header was already there and plain text is showing. Going to try suggestions above.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-11 15:25:41Z

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If I understand right, you want to view the HTML as plain text, you can run a PHP script to find and replace the "<" and ">" characters to HTML entities using 'str_replace()'. HTML Entities

Then when you echo, PHP handles them as "<" and ">" in plain text not HTML at ALL.

Learn more about find and replace in PHP using str_replace():

str_replace PHP Tutorial
Example:

<?php
$response = file_get_contents("second.html");
str_replace("<", "&lt;",$response);
str_replace(">", "&gt;",$response;
echo $response;
?>

edited Feb 11, 2014 at 15:25

answered Feb 8, 2014 at 15:40

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