entering html and php into a db and display this in a textarea without it being processed as code

[monomaniac21]

hi all!

how can i enter html and php into a db and display this within a
TEXTAREA without it being processed as code? do i need to replace
characters like <? with something else like say <..? or is there a more
elegant solution that tells the php parser etc to ignore this section
as it needs to be processed as text not code.

regards

marc

[Jerry Stuckle]

Re: entering html and php into a db and display this in a textareawithout it being processed as code

monomaniac21 wrote:

hi all!
>
how can i enter html and php into a db and display this within a
TEXTAREA without it being processed as code? do i need to replace
characters like <? with something else like say <..? or is there a more
elegant solution that tells the php parser etc to ignore this section
as it needs to be processed as text not code.
>
regards
>
marc
>

Before displaying any data like this you should run it through
htmlentities() to convert chars like "<" to "&lt;". Then it will
display correctly (and, BTW, not cause the code to be processed).

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