problem displaying php/html code

[flunn]

Greetings:

I'm trying to use htmlentities() to display html/php code on a web page. It works fine except for one problem: the code is displayed as a single line, but I want line breaks where I have put them in my editor.

Any advice as to how to solve this problem would be much appreciated.

 

regards to all

 

from flunn

[Steve Angelis]

Have you tried adding in this?  echo "<br>"; somewhere?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

New lines \n or \r\n are not html. To get them to result in html newlines, either wrap the code you want to display in < pre > .... < /pre > tags (without the spaces inside the tags) or use the php nl2br() function to insert html newlines.

[flunn]

Thanks to Steve Angelis and PFMaBiSmAd for their replies. I've tried the "<pre>" and the nl2br() ideas, but without success I'm afraid. 

 

I've also tried a couple of online translators that are supposed to make code friendly for display. They solve part of the problem but if I put in all the code I want to display they generate php errors like ("expecting T_string")

 

I'm afraid I've got in over my head here. Anyway thanks again to both of you and

 

regards to all from

 

flunn

[redarrow]

You use <br><br>

 

or

 

<p></p>

 

but from the database when the data was submitted use nl2br() function

but you do not use the nl2br() function to insert data only to output data.......

[sasa]

use html <pre> tag