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[nycphp-talk] parse file, return as string

Fan, Wellington wfan at VillageVoice.com
Thu Aug 19 13:40:24 EDT 2004


> > On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, inforequest wrote:
> > 
> > > Fan, Wellington wfan-at-VillageVoice.com |nyphp 04/2004| wrote:
> > >
> > > >ob_start();
> > > >@include($path_to_file);
> > > >$contents = ob_get_clean();
> > > >
> > > >
> > > be very wary of remote injections with that code.... include will 
> > > accept a URL in that variable. Explicitly allow



I am under complete control of $path_to_file -- AND it will likely point to
a file outside of docroot.

So, besides the potential injection problems of the above code, any other
way to parse a PHP file and return as a string?

--
WF




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