When I inspect an element of my webpage using Firebug, I cannot identify which .php code it using and on which php file I can find this code on from the server. Is there any other way to locate pieces of php codes from a browser?
Many thanks,
Arthur
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1what do you mean by "php page"? – afuzzyllama Aug 24 '11 at 22:31
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3your php dynamically generates html for browser. So firebug on ff can only see the generated html. – Tae-Sung Shin Aug 24 '11 at 22:34
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if your are including multiple php files, you need to print comments as to where includes start and stop. you could also check out firephp. – ldg Aug 24 '11 at 22:34
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I mean the .PHP file which is on the server of my website, I would like to locate it from the browser directly. – Arthur Mamou-Mani Aug 24 '11 at 22:36
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2Unless your web server provides with such a capacity, you can't – Tae-Sung Shin Aug 24 '11 at 22:41
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Thanks ldg and Sheen, I will look into firephp. – Arthur Mamou-Mani Aug 25 '11 at 09:25
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You could edit the source code to make print out. Maybe a HTML comment such as:<!-- Start of index.php -->
I actively work to hide what PHP-file is used to generate any specific HTML-output as it makes out a serious security threat.
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Look at the address bar of the browser. Firebug inspect works for the current browser page and it doesn't know what PHP is - it's just HTML content, regardless of the script running on the server that generated the content.
If this doesn't help, elaborate your question.
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1Thanks Veseliq, how can I identify the specific .PHP file to modify on my server? – Arthur Mamou-Mani Aug 24 '11 at 22:35
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3This is impossible to know without more details. I would go by doing simple text search on the files on your server for snippets of HTML that is unlikely to be dynamic like '' to look up where the HTML near that div is generated. BUT this is totally shooting directions - no way to know what your server system is, how it generates content and firebug can not help you at all.– ddinchev Aug 24 '11 at 22:40
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2Look at the address bar, that will tell you which file the page you are looking at was loaded from... What exactly are you trying to modify? I think you're asking wrong question to be honest - it's not 'how do I find it in Firebug', but 'how do I find the bit of PHP code that does XXX' – DaveRandom Aug 24 '11 at 22:42
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If this were possible it would make php less secure, a part of the security is the obscurity, if you could simple find out which file does what it would be much easer to launch a targeted attack.
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