Re: Logins, Users, Passwords, & HTML
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Logins, Users, Passwords, & HTML | ||
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> 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.
echo htmlspecialchars($line);
See: http://www.php.net/manual/function.htmlspecialchars.php3
I'll pass on the second question. Like you said, there are a million ways
to do this. I personally prefer to use an SQL-backed HTTP auth scheme.
This also gives you built-in session support since the auth data is
available throughout the user's session.
See: http://www.php.net/manual/features.http-auth.php3
-Rasmus