Litterally printing Tags

[richardstan]

Hi, how can i get php to litteraly print a tag so that it is not interpretted by the Browser as an HTML Tag.

For example, when you look at an XML document in a browser it shows

<root>

<tag1>

</tag1>

<tag2>

</tag2>

</root>

 

if i try and use echo '<tag>' then my browser will try and interpret this as HTML or do something weird instead of litterally printing <tag>.

Does this make sense?

Thanks

Richard.

 

[unrelenting]

Probably with strip_tags.

 

http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_string_strip_tags.asp

 

EDIT:

 

After reading more into that I take it back.

 

EDIT:

 

Found it.....htmlspecialchars...

 

$contents="<b>Hello this is bold</b> <i>This is italic</i> This is normal this is a double quote " this is & this is less than < this is greater than >";
echo htmlspecialchars($content);

 

http://www.plus2net.com/php_tutorial/htmlspecialchars.php