Re: [PHP] Display HTML/PHP code on a web page

Jason Paschal <j_paschal@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I've googled for it, but nothing came up. How do I display code on a page
> without it being executed?

This has to do with how your webserver is set up, because it see's that
its a php file it runs it thruough php.

> i want the page to display HTML code as it would look if you typed it into
> an editor (not encoded), and the code I want to display is being spit out
> by PHP. Which functions should i look at? i can get it to display with
> urlencode, but, of course, it's encoded.

htmlentities();

> Thank you,

Your welcome.

> Jason
>
> P.S. a bit more info:

Uh, oh.. I thought I had it under control :)

> I'm pulling a file from my site like this: $file =
> file("http://..../file.php");
> it works fine, but i want to be able to print out lines that meet a certain
> criteria, and that includes any of the html source that comes along with it.
> however, the the search script tries to execute the lines instead of
> displaying them.

hm.. so your trying to fetch the file from a web server but don't want
it to execute that file.php? See answer to first questoin.

> i don't want to write this to a file and then display as this is for admin
> purposes and i want to be able to do quick scans from a browser, and i want
> the matches to display underneath the search form, which I can do, but I
> make a note of it because the page still has to react as an html page (form
> submission).
> this make any sense?

You lost me here.


Curt
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