PHP </textarea> in a textarea.

[Speedysnail6]

Hi. I don't know how to have the code </textarea> INSIDE of a textarea using PHP.

$edit_content_de = "<textarea>Text</textarea>asd";     
<p><?php echo '<textarea name="content" id="codeTextarea" style="width:90%; height:500px;">'. $edit_content_de; .'</textarea>'; ?></p>

But obviously what happens is the textarea ends and BELOW the textarea it says "asd". How do I stop this and have it say </textarea> INSIDE textarea instead of closing it?

Edited October 24, 2013 by Speedysnail6

[mac_gyver]

all text content (anything that isn't html/javascript/css) should be passed through htmlentities() before being output on a web page, so that any html entities in it are converted to their character equivalents.

 

when these are submitted, they will be converted back to the actual html entities.

[JD*]

So you want to have the literal words in there? Use the html characters instead

<?php $edit_content_de = "<textarea>Text</textarea>asd"; ?>
<p><?php echo '<textarea name="content" id="codeTextarea" style="width:90%; height:500px;">'.$edit_content_de.'</textarea>'; ?></p>

Edited October 24, 2013 by JD*

[Speedysnail6]

Thanks!

[mentalist]

 

So you want to have the literal words in there? Use the html characters instead

 

<?php $edit_content_de = "&lt;textarea&gt;Text&lt;/textarea&gt;asd"; ?><p><?php echo '<textarea name="content" id="codeTextarea" style="width:90%; height:500px;">'.$edit_content_de.'</textarea>'; ?></p>

or

htmlentities

[Psycho]

A couple things:

 

1. No need to put your hard coded textarea tags int he echo

2. As mac_gyver and mentalist stated above, you should use htmlentities instead of trying to figure out the conversions yourself.

<?php
$edit_content_de = "<textarea>Text</textarea>asd";     
?>
<p><textarea name="content" id="codeTextarea" style="width:90%; height:500px;"><?php echo htmlentities($edit_content_de); ?></textarea></p>