displaying literal code

[Rifts]

in my datebase I have this

 

<iframe src="https://www.xxxxxx.com/agent.asp?id=xxxxx style="width: 545px; height: 750px;" frameborder="1"></iframe>

 

obviously when I echo it it makes the iframe

 

how can I get it to echo out literally what it is with the < > and all?

 

thanks

 

figured it out I changed the < to < in my db

[Psycho]

figured it out I changed the < to < in my db

 

Why would you do that? I suggest always keeping your data in it's "raw" state. If you ever need to use that data as HTML code you will have a harder time converting that code back.

 

A better solution, IMHO, would be to simply use htmlspecialchars() or htmlentities() to convert the text on-the-fly to replace the necessary characters.