Re: Display HTML/PHP code on a web page

Jason Paschal <j_paschal@hotmail.com> wrote: > I've googled for it, but nothing came up. How do I display code on a page > without it being executed? This has to do with how your webserver is set up, because it see's that its a php file it runs it thruough php. > i want the page to display HTML code as it would look if you typed it into > an editor (not encoded), and the code I want to display is being spit out > by PHP. Which functions should i look at? i can get it to display with > urlencode, but, of course, it's encoded. htmlentities(); > Thank you, Your welcome. > Jason > > P.S. a bit more info: Uh, oh.. I thought I had it under control :) > I'm pulling a file from my site like this: $file = > file("http://..../file.php"); > it works fine, but i want to be able to print out lines that meet a certain > criteria, and that includes any of the html source that comes along with it. > however, the the search script tries to execute the lines instead of > displaying them. hm.. so your trying to fetch the file from a web server but don't want it to execute that file.php? See answer to first questoin. > i don't want to write this to a file and then display as this is for admin > purposes and i want to be able to do quick scans from a browser, and i want > the matches to display underneath the search form, which I can do, but I > make a note of it because the page still has to react as an html page (form > submission). > this make any sense? You lost me here. Curt --