Assume I have this text:
<?php
$my_first_word = 'hi there';
echo $my_first_word;
?>
And I want to print it out to the screen, only problem is when I put all the text inside a print"";
It doesn't actually print the php tags and etc, I want it to actually be outputted on the browser as text.
as text:
echo '<?php
$my_first_word = \'hi there\';
echo $my_first_word;
?>';
as html:
echo nl2br(htmlspecialchars('<?php
$my_first_word = \'hi there\';
echo $my_first_word;
?>'));
Do note the use of ' for quoting (otherwise the variables would not be literals), as well as the therefore escaped ' char inside the string.
I think this should work:
echo htmlspecialchars($string);
http://docs.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php
htmlspecialchars — Convert special characters to HTML entities
For string to print new line add this:
nl2br(htmlspecialchars($string));
maybe you can try:
print sprintf("%s", htmlspecialchars($my_first_word));
$expand = 'appear';
echo 'Variables do not $expand $either'; // Outputs: Variables $expand
echo "Variables do not $expand $either"; // Outputs: Variables appear