how do i force php NOT to parse??

Anon

How do I force PHP NOT to parse something. For example, here is a string:

abc\\////cba

If I go like this:
<?php
$word = "abc\\////cba";
print $word
?>

That doesn't work. And neither does using single quotes:

<?php
$word = 'abc\\////cba';
print $word
?>

In fact, if I wanted to go crazy, how could I take an entire html page, filled with hundreds of ", ; and ? and make php not parse them?

Yesterday, someone said put things in single quotes. Well, what if halfway through my extremely long string, there is a single quote and a semicolon? What if my string is:

Trees had a 'branch'; <and a treehouse, too>

I know that this situation shouldn't come up normally, but my question is one of principle.

Thanks!

Anon

What do you mean

<?php
$word = 'abc\\////cba';
print $word
?>

doesn't work? What does it output and what do you expect?

Diego

Anon

Well, in that case, I get a parse error.

My question is how do I make php print exactly whatever the string is without parsing quotes or semicolons or slashes.

In my example, I used this:

abc\\////cba

so What can I do, in the similar format of
<?php
print 'abc\\////cba';
?>
that would work?

And, there seems to be no way I can get PHP to just print that, without my having to specifically backslash (escape) things.

Furthermore, I have a bigger question: What if the whole page is filled with quotes and semicolons, and single quotes, how can I get php to print it all at once?

Again, that's a philosophical question; Normally, one would escape php and use html... but what if I didn't feel like doing that.

Anon

Well, you normally you'd just drop out of the PHP parser, like you said:

?>
abc\\////cba
<?php

I haven't experimented thoroughly with it as an alternative, but the <<< "here-doc" syntax might offer some help.