hello friends, i have a query in writng the content of one file to another. i attempted it. it only writes the html codings.it could not write the php scripts inside the file. i use the following code to accomplish my problem... ############################################################## if (!defined('T_ML_COMMENT')) { define('T_ML_COMMENT', T_COMMENT); } else { define('T_DOC_COMMENT', T_ML_COMMENT); } $source = file_get_contents('-.php'); $tokens = token_get_all($source); foreach ($tokens as $token) { if (is_string($token)) { // simple 1-character token $ourFileName = "/home/itempla1/public_html/links/".$pwd.".php"; $ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'w') or die("can't open file"); echo $token; fwrite($ourFileHandle, $token); fclose($ourFileHandle); } else { // token array list($id, $text) = $token; switch ($id) { case T_COMMENT: case T_ML_COMMENT: // we've defined this case T_DOC_COMMENT: // and this // no action on comments break; default: // anything else -> output "as is" $ourFileName = "/home/itempla1/public_html/links/".$pwd.".php"; $ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'a') or die("can't open file"); echo $text; fwrite($ourFileHandle, $text); fclose($ourFileHandle); break; } } } ?> ################################################################ please give me some valuable tips to write the content of the php file to another newly created php file. Thanks, Suresh.P --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online.