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[eluser]SlasherX[/eluser]
[quote author="awpti" date="1186572135"]You do realize that the easier solution is to simply do the following, right?[/quote]

Not always, what if your using php to generate php code for your users to use? Perhaps a banner rotation script or something like that. Deal with files at that point is more of a pain then just generating and displaying the code. It depends on what your trying to do and why.