Gudday to you my fellow programmers, Please i really need a help from you, av got dis project m working on nd m now grounded by this lil issue which is that.

I want to output some php code to the browser like
<?php

$problem = ' cant output this to the browser';

echo $problem;
/* i want all the code to be outputed as typed */

?>


please can anyone help me?

WRITE IT UNDER THE <CODE></CODE> TAG OF YOUR HTML

To illuminate dis post very well, am pulling out d codes from a mysql db, so my end page is a php formate page, so i can really wrap much html tages

i am not sure about this as i am not a pro in php yet but you can try to use escape like this.

<?php
error_reporting(0);
echo "&lt;?php

\$problem = ' cant output this to the browser';<br/>

echo \$problem;
/* i want all the code to be outputed as typed */

?&gt;";
?>

You should use htmlspecialchars. It replaces characters as below:

'&' (ampersand) becomes &amp;
'"' (double quote) becomes &quot;
"'" (single quote) becomes &#039;
'<' (less than) becomes &lt;
'>' (greater than) becomes &gt;

Thanks to you all my man, i was Able to find out what it was, and that is htmlentities(); i will pass line of codes to the fucnction like.

<?php

$mycode ='the special php lines';

echo htmlentities($mycode),
/*this output the code as written.*/

?>