daft question re echo

[peasepud]

Im having a brain freeze and cant get it into gear so have what is a stupid question!

Im trying to put a description on a links page of the code to use when linking to a clients site and have it coming from php (as I want the alt code to be randomly selected from a dozen options) but for the life of me I cant think how to display it without actually displaying the banner!

ie I want to output

<a href="

http://www.mydomain.com><img

src="

http://www.mydomain.com/images/bannerimage"

alt="the alt description"></a>

but I actually want it to display the above text on the page rather than have the page parse the html and display a banner.

Can a balding bloke have a blonde moment?

 

[vacunita]

There are several ways to do this, the most straight forward would be: either in a textarea so the html does not get parsed, or use htmlentities on the string, so all the html tags get replaced by their display characters , and as such don't get rendered by the browser.

i.e.

<textarea><a href="[URL unfurl="true"]www.mydomain.com><img[/URL] src="[URL unfurl="true"]www.mydomain.com/images/bannerimage"[/URL] alt="the alt description"></a></textarea>

or

$mystring='<a href="[URL unfurl="true"]www.mydomain.com><img[/URL] src="[URL unfurl="true"]www.mydomain.com/images/bannerimage"[/URL] alt="the alt description"></a>';
$output=htmlentities($mystring);
echo $output;

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[peasepud]

Thank you,