[vox-tech] reading files into a web page

Peter Jay Salzman vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Sat, 2 Feb 2002 23:49:53 -0800


begin Mark K. Kim <markslist@cbreak.org> 
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, nbs wrote:
> 
> > Or simpler yet:
> >
> >   <?php include("file"); ?>
> 
> "include" does PHP translation, which Peter may not want.  It's especially
> fatal if you're including a user-posted data.  "fpassthru" is safer from
> security point of view.
 
what's php translation?   like expansion of "variables" in case the file
has something that may look like a php variable?

btw, i started reading about php today.  i have to say, it's a very nice
language.  it reminds me alot of C...

pete