PHP include

[DouglasAWh]

Sorry for the crappy thread title, I hit enter too soon!

I have an HTML page that I've built with XQuery. Unfortunately, the original document has lots of escaped HTML charaters "<" = "&lt" and thus the browser renders the characters, not the HTML (it shows the '<', not keeping that just in source). My thought at correcting this was to use the html_entity_decode function in PHP, but the problem is even though it's simple to include my XQuery output in the PHP file with the include command, I don't know how to turn that include into a strong some that html_entity_decode can do its thing. I'm going to continue to look at it, but any help would be greatly appreciated as always!

[DouglasAWh]

Ok, now I'm trying to do this with regular expressions, but I don't have any experience with regular expressions. Here's what I've got


$a = include 'google2.html';


$b = preg_replace("/&lt;/", "/</", $a);
preg_replace("/&gt;/", "/>/", $b);


It throws no errors, but doesn't do what I think it should do, either.

Interestingly, $a = include 'google2.html'; outputs the document, so I'm wondering if it is actually passing the variable to $a. If I put the echo $a command it, it produces a '1' after the code for some reason.

[LaRoza]

It looks like you want to open a file, read the contents, and then process it.

Use:

fopen,fread,file_get_contents, and other file handling functions.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php

[#Reistlehr-]

you can do something along the lins of..

<?php
$File = 'Path To File';
$Contents = file_get_contents($File);
echo html_entity_decode($Contents);
?>

(not garunteed to work)

[DouglasAWh]

I actually already had this figured out, but hadn't posted the solution.

Here it is (basically what #Reistlehr- said):


<?php

$a = file_get_contents('google2.html');
$b = html_entity_decode($a);
echo $b;

?>


Nice and simple. :)