Need to display script on page without it resolving or executing. 1

[southbeach]

I am working on a module where articles can be published. These articles will have HTML, JS, PHP and other type of scripting tags.

Right now, all looks good except that when I used the < pre >
tag to display the code, the code appears to be resolved and not shown.

I sort of want to do same as it is done here, I can post my code and it shows as content of my postings ... How is this done?

Thank you all in advance!

 

[jpadie]

it would be very strange if you were executing code that came out of your database. so i guess your issue is one of html encoding.

use htmlspecialchars() on the output before wrapping it in <pre><code> tags

 

[southbeach]

That helped ... Thanks!

I ended up using

<pre>
<?PHP
echo htmlspecialchars('
all of my PHP and HTML code
');
?>
</pre>

and the code is displayed as content.