Display code on page

[frost]

I have some information (php code) stored in a database and I am trying to grab it out and display it to my visitors.

 

The problem is that the when I try to display:

 

<? include 'file.php' ?>

 

My page actually goes ahead and includes that...I looked at the source code of other posts here on phpfreaks and it looks like the "code" command replaces > and < with > and <

 

How can I do the same? Thanks!

[Fadion]

u can use <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php">htmlentities()</a>

 

$str = "<? include 'file.php' ?>";
echo htmlentities($str);

[MadTechie]

try

 

htmlspecialchars

[Fadion]

From the php manual

 

If you require all HTML character entities to be translated, use htmlentities() instead (of htmlspecialchars).

 

[frost]

I thiiiiink this will work out. Thanks folks.

[frost]

whoooops.

 

There is text in the database field as well, when I applied htmlspecialchars(); the div's and other html parts are visible.

 

So i have:

 

text text text

 

code code code

 

text text text

 

If I wrap the code part in something can I target it specifically (preg_replace?) and replace < with > ?