Your array that you get from the file() will contain the <?php tag, but you will not see it in your browser as it is parsed as html. header("Content-type: text/plain"); ontop of your script will output plain text. Hope it helps. Best regards, Peter Lauri www.dwsasia.com - company web site www.lauri.se - personal web site www.carbonfree.org.uk - become Carbon Free > -----Original Message----- > From: magoo [mailto:i.am.magoo@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 3:52 PM > To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: file() ignores PHP tags > > Hi NG! > > I wanna output several kinds of ascii files. Two things are bothering me > right now: > 1. I don`t get the PHP starttag (<?php) in my output, but the ending tags. > Is there anything I can to to get all of it? > > 2. How can I stop the browser to render HTML output, in order to get plain > ascii? > > Cheers! > > -- > Kind regards, > magoo > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php