Generate html code in the browser window

Anon

Hi,

I currently have some PHP scripts that generate html pages. Howeber, I would like the output to display html code WITHIN the brower window rather than have it generate html that displays the laid-up results within the browser window.

For example, if myscript.php generates the code:

<head>
<title>Reviews</title>
</head>

<body>
<H1>Reviews<//H1>
<P>Foo Bar
</body>

then it will display:

REVIEWS
Foo Bar

However, I want a page that will actually display:

<head>
<title>Reviews</title>
</head>

<body>
<H1>Reviews<//H1>
<P>Foo Bar
</body>

in the browser window.

Does anyone know of a simple script (shtml, php or perl) or process that can do this simply - so I can keep te existing PHP scripts and just run, say, shtml scripts that process the original PHP script? Or will I have to totally rewrite my PHP script to output 'escaped' tags?

The former would be better as I could then use the original script to output 'properly' and to also generate the html code for inspection.

Cheers,

Steve

Anon

If you want to display html tags as tags without having them processed by the browser, you need to translate all angle-brackets to their html codes like <. There is a php function to translate those automatically, check out the manual.

Anon

if you have

$string = "<body>Text</body>";

for example and you use this, it'll output it exactly as typed, not as rendered html

echo htmlspecialchars($string);

There is also an htmlentities() function that works similar. Note that these function take something like > and turn it into ; followed by gt. it's a code for greater than. so it might be worthwhile for inspection of code, but I don't know how cut and paste of something like that would work. would you get > or the code for it??

---John Holmes...

Anon

If all you want is the ability to inspect the generated html, couldn't you just use your browser's 'view source'?

I suppose if you really need to display it in the browser, you could first generate the HTML on the server (using wget or something similar), then read the generated file and output each line to the browser using htmlentities().

HTH,
Beth