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SourceViewer

SourceViewer is a php script and tool that allows you to provide an easy way for your visitors to view the source of your website. For example, the "view source" link at the bottom of this website takes you to the SourceViewer highlighting he current page.

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The basic SourceViewer is designed especially for displaying the source of websites. Here are some of the key features present in SourceViewer:

  • Allows highlighting of files in the directory where sourceviewer is located and any subdirectories. Limiting sourceviewer only to a few files is very simple, since SourceViewer makes absolutely certain that it only accesses files in it's own and subdirectories.
  • SourceViewer can also be restricted to only certain file extensions. This way you can only allow access to for example .php files, but prevent access from .php4 files or something similiar. It is also possible to define regular expressions, which the path is matched against to make sure it doesn't access those paths.
  • SourceViewer supports multiple different styles, and making your own style only requires some PHP skill (or alternatively editing the styles for the custom style). By default, SourceViewer comes with 2 customized styles, php default style and plain style (i.e. no styling).
  • Source can be viewed with line numbers or without line numbers. Line numbers are achieved by <ol> list, instead of plain written numbers, making copying the source much easier.
  • SourceViewer also provides slightly alternative style sheet for printing. This stylesheet makes lines wrap and also removes the excess coloring from line number colum and header & footer. The style of the code itself however is left intact.

In addition to being designed for viewing the source of website, it can also be used for highlighting php code on website using the highlighting classes. One interesting feature that you can find in the highlighting classes is that the output is returned in array, where each index is one line separately formatted. This allows you to easily format the code into lines as you want yourself. With a bit of PHP knowledge and reading the provided documentation, you may also write your own highlighting styles for the highlight classes.

For examples, simply click the "View Source" link on the bottom of this page.