echo a string that contain <? and <?php

[haoren]

Can anybody help me with this problem:

How can I echo a string that contain <? and <?php?

For example,

$str="test <? and <?php echo";
echo $str;
What I get is: test instead of: test <? and <?php echo
Thanks.

[Allodoxaphobia]

On 20 Jul 2004 07:15:13 -0700, haoren hath writ:

Can anybody help me with this problem:

How can I echo a string that contain <? and <?php?

For example,

$str="test <? and <?php echo";
$str="test &lt;? and &lt;?php echo";
echo $str;
What I get is: test instead of: test <? and <?php echo
Thanks.

[Michael Fesser]

.oO(haoren)

How can I echo a string that contain <? and <?php?

For example,

$str="test <? and <?php echo";
echo $str;

echo htmlspecialchars($str);

http://www.php.net/htmlspecialchars

Micha

[Westcoast Sheri]

haoren wrote:

Can anybody help me with this problem:

How can I echo a string that contain <? and <?php?

For example,

$str="test <? and <?php echo";
echo $str;

What I get is: test instead of: test <? and <?php echo

Thanks.

Just use single quotes:
<?php
$string = 'test <? and <?php echo';
echo $string;
?>

[Ian.H]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 07:15:13 -0700, haoren wrote:

Can anybody help me with this problem:

How can I echo a string that contain <? and <?php?

For example,

$str="test <? and <?php echo";
echo $str;
What I get is: test instead of: test <? and <?php echo
Thanks.

You should _never_ be echoing a < or > char to the browser, this should
_always_ be &lt; or &gt;.
echo htmlentities($str);
would work in your instance for example.

Regards,

Ian

--
Ian.H
digiServ Network
London, UK
http://digiserv.net/

[Anders K. Madsen]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:24:59 GMT
"Ian.H" <ia*@WINDOZEdigiserv.net> wrote:

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 07:15:13 -0700, haoren wrote:
[SNIP]
You should _never_ be echoing a < or > char to the browser, this
should_always_ be &lt; or &gt;.

That's interesting... How do you output HTML from PHP then? :-p

What he's trying to say is that if you want a < or a > to show up in
your browser, you should use &lt; and &gt;, since < and > are the chars
used to delimit HTML tags, so the browser will think that the < or > you
just echo'ed out is part of the HTML.
So, again... If you want < and > to print in e.g. a text, use 'echo
"&lt; and &gt;";'

Madsen

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"There are 10 types of people in the world.
Those who understand binary - and those who don't."

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[Ian.H]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:28:47 +0200, Anders K. Madsen wrote:

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:24:59 GMT
"Ian.H" <ia*@WINDOZEdigiserv.net> wrote:

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 07:15:13 -0700, haoren wrote:

[SNIP]

You should _never_ be echoing a < or > char to the browser, this
should_always_ be &lt; or &gt;.

That's interesting... How do you output HTML from PHP then? :-p

What he's trying to say is that if you want a < or a > to show up in
your browser, you should use &lt; and &gt;, since < and > are the chars
used to delimit HTML tags, so the browser will think that the < or > you
just echo'ed out is part of the HTML.
So, again... If you want < and > to print in e.g. a text, use 'echo
"&lt; and &gt;";'

Madsen

lol oops =)

Yup, that pretty much sums it up.. I was referring to if you wanted to
display < or > chars, they should _always_ be entities rather than their
actual chars.

FWIW.. I rarely output HTML from PHP... gotta love Smarty ;)

Regards,

Ian

--
Ian.H
digiServ Network
London, UK
http://digiserv.net/

[haoren]

I should have put the question in the context. In fact, the string is
received from user's input to the form of a browser. Thus, echo
htmlspecialchars($str); can solve the problem.

Thanks Michael and all you guys.
haoren


Michael Fesser <ne*****@gmx.net> wrote in message news:<9t********************************@4ax.com>. ..

.oO(haoren)

How can I echo a string that contain <? and <?php?

For example,

$str="test <? and <?php echo";
echo $str;

echo htmlspecialchars($str);

http://www.php.net/htmlspecialchars

Micha