Data manipulation question

[nasium]

I have a recordset containing PHP & HTML, i want to display the raw code on the page. But of course when I spit the recordset out, it renders the current HTML page.

How can I spit out this raw code without rendering the page?

Do I need to replace the tags with HTML special characters before inserting into the database?

Thanks,
Jorge

[the_Igel]

Here's three ways, depending on your specific needs.

1. Convert special symbols to html entities when storing data to db (see [man]htmlspecialchars[/man]);
2. Convert special symbols to html entities when retrieving data from db (see [man]htmlspecialchars[/man]);
3. In case the total page doesn't need html rendering, but should be viewed as plain text, you can set content-type of the page to text/plain (either via meta-tags, or [man]header[/man], or server-configuration.

[bbaassiri]

try using the html <pre> tag

that might help