read_file.php
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <form action="savecontents.php" method="post"> <textarea name="file_contents" style="width:700px;height:600px;"> <?php $fileName = "location/of/orignal/file/my_file.php"; $handle = fopen($fileName, "r"); while (!feof($handle)){ $text = fgets($handle); echo $text; } ?> </textarea> <input type="hidden" value=" <? echo $fileName; ?> " name="original_file_name" /> </form> <body> </body> </html>