PHP file print its own content

Is it possible for PHP file to print itself, for example <?php some code; ?> that I get output in HTML as <?php some code; ?>(I know its possible in c++), if not is it possible to actually print html version of php code with nice formatting and colors such as from this url inside code container http://woork.blogspot.com/2009/07/twitter-api-how-to-create-stream-of.html. OR from this website when you press code, while posting your example your code gets wrapped or whatever term is for that, makes it distinguishable from other non-code text. tnx

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• Yes.

  <?php readfile(__FILE__)
  

  __FILE__ is a magic constant that contains the absolute filesystem path to the file it is used in. And readfile just reads and prints the contents. And if you want to have a syntax highlighted HTML output, try the highlight_file function or highlight_string function instead.

  Tom : Of course, you'd want to run it through htmlentities() and posiblely wrap it in

  so that it would display correctly.

  c0mrade : So lets say if I wanted to print content of index.php from print.php , my code would be

  Gumbo : @c0mrade: Yes, that would print the plain contents (so the source) of that *index.php* directly to the client. If you want to print it in a HTML file, use `file_get_contents` instead of `readfile` and pass it through `htmlspecialchars` to replace HTML’s special characters. So: `echo htmlspecialchars(file_get_contents("index.php"));`

  c0mrade : Yes it totally worked

• I'm not sure if this is exactly what you want but you can print a file using:

  echo file_get_contents(__FILE__);
  

  or syntax-highlighted:

  highlight_file(__FILE__);