Logins, Users, Passwords, & HTML

Hello, First, thank you everyone that responded to my question, about parsing out a string paul*geroge*john*ringo ... the explode function did the trick nicely. Also, this list is great the dialogue and questions from my frist day I have learned several new things ... this php newbie thanks you all. I have two questions: 1) I have text files which I read into a php page and they create the html nicely .... example would be a link or lists of links which I would place inside a cell on a table $line = "<CENTER><A HREF="www.somewhere.com>Click Here to go Somewhere</A></CENTER>" print("$line \n"); How do I get this to display the actual text and not convert it into HTML that works ... What I am trying to do is display the contents of a file which is in fact html code, without the html doing it's thing. 2) I am sure this will open up a can of worms (and that it has already been discussed many times) I really just need a couple of simple examples or links to examples that I can build from.. I think I need two php examples .... One which allows me to add new users to my system, I want to be able to enter a screen name, Password, and a status code 0 - 5 and then save this into a file which will then be accessed by ... Two, a php page which asks the user to enter the screenname and password, validate that they are okay to use this page, and create 2 session variables $screenname and $status Again, I know there are at least 100 ways to do this, can someone point me to one or two really simply approaches. Thank you all in Advance, Paul Gruhn