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View PHP Source

Relates to PHP and Apache, DOM Scripting

Here is a cute little bookmarklet to tie in with the source file for viewing underlying PHP as outlined in the PHP Manual. The source file should be placed in the server root directory for the main server or a virtual host, and the Location directive set accordingly in the Apache configuration file (See the PHP Manual). This code snippet simply performs a regular expression replace to change the location.href to point to the source file.

javascript:var re=/\/\/([-a-z\.]+)\//i; _
window.location.href= _
window.location.href.replace(re,"//$1/source/");

This code can be pasted into a new bookmark ( _ just represents line continuation), or drag this PHP Source link onto your bookmarks. I find this quite useful when walking through a site on my test platform, and it complements the many client side developer utilities in the Firefox Web Developer toolbar and these comprehensive Web Development Bookmarklets.

Posted on Saturday, Mar 27, 2004 at 04:49:49.