stupid question

[juschillinnow]

when using php how do I echo the code for example...if were writing a tutorial and wanted my readers to see the code <font size="4" color="#FFFFFF">Hello World</font> how would I echo the code instead of executing it?

[Smifffy]

not sure but you can stick it in a text box that works

[Tracer]

could you not just escape it out?

echo "<font size=\"2\">Whetever</>";

[juschillinnow]

I had already went with the text area suggestions and that works. Not quite what I wanted but I works.

I tried to escape it before posting but it still executed and read the code.

Kinda weird. I thought it would work

Maybe I forgot to escapte a character or something I'll try again.

[juschillinnow]

Escaping does not quite work like that I guess.. I just executes.

[Tracer]

It will work, just don't forget to escape out each character that needs to be escaped, and enclose the entire string in quotes

you can find some info at
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.php

you can find a list of characters which need to be escaped out at http://www.php.net/manual/en/print/language.types.string.php

Hope this helps

[spaddict]

You could always just get out of PHP and do it the ol' fashion way:

<?php
// functions, code, etc
?>
<pre>
(stuff goes here)
</pre>

<?php

// more functions, stuff

?>

If you use style sheets you can change the way the stuff inside the <pre> tag looks as well.