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phps handlers

Cool trick to avoid making duplicates or symlinks to .php files in order for people to view your crappy php source. Also nice when your webhosting doesn't provide a handler for .phps. Go go more .htaccess fu and php'ness. In summary place the following in a .php file somewhere, like viewsource.php or phpsrc.php:
<?php

  $file = preg_replace("/\\.phps$\", ".php", $_SERVER[\'PATH_TRANSLATED\']);
  $file = realpath($file);
  if (!file_exists($file)) {
   print("Error: No such file!!");
  } else {
   highlight_file($file);
  }

?>
Then add the following 2 lines to .htaccess:
AddType php-source .phps Action php-source /viewsource.php
replace viewsource.php with your file name of choice, and viola! For example, see the AAWC Formatter and its source. Cheers, Steve

posted by steve @ 9:45 PM