how to echo show php tags

abhyajit

Hi all...

  i want to echo php tags using echo statement.

i.e.

i need to display <? echo 'hi' ?> in the browser
but, echo "<? echo hello' ?>"; doesn't work ....

  so if anybody knows solution........

plz help.....

------- abhi

cassius

Try this code, it should work:

<?php
echo "&lt;? echo 'hi' ?&gt;";
?>

k89mmmk

<?php echo "<? echo 'hi' ?>"; ?>

m3rajk

go to your local bookstore and buy the book with isbn 1565926102

it will explain why that didn't work. when you know that you will be better at this because of that. again.no one should be giving out code for questions like this, because then the person only learns to whine bitch and moan.

for basic things like this you people need to sate why it's not working or point to a place that does. not give the code. they will not learn if you give the code. if they do not learn they will be of no use to you down the road when you have an issue.

yes, this is as much for everyone BUT the author as it is for the author

k89mmmk

I'm sorry. I didn't realise you were the genius in here all of a sudden.

I see nothing wrong with posting this code.
#1 - its quicker for me to do that then explain.
#2 - the original poster can see from the fixed code why it wasn't working. Not everyone needs a lecture. Many MANY times a simple example will suffice. That is the case here.

Maybe you should quit looking for something to complain about in everyone's posts (this is the third complaint I've seen from you in the past 5 minutes) and start helping people. Telling them off is not helping. Its making you look like an ***.

cassius

There are a lot of ways to learn, and I totally agree with k89mmmk here. You seem to have a bad day or something, and allthough you don't appreciate this way of helping out, I think it would be better if you minded your own business and kept your anger to yourself.

I'm sure abhyajit appreciated the help, so I don't really care what you think about my post.

m3rajk

posting code is good when you give an explaination
otherwise they just copy and paste. i've seen it before.

unlike you i understand this, but when the person is asking about <?php v <? v <% then they learned by rippimng off code they found on the net: ie: they dont understand something basic to php.ini if they even understand that.

from what i have seen this si a site script kiddies are posting at. why do i think that?
look at the general level of the question.,

"what's an array???? why id the guy who make the script use [0]? i wrote some more to it and it's not working....." and the more is missing the [0]

this is something so basic that if you can't understand it you need a book, not a website. a question like that or this one should send up a red flag that the person NEVER opened a book. if they never opened a book they aren't going to figure out that <?php is the actual opening and some people congifure their php.ini to allow asp styole (<%) and short (SGML) style (<?) tags as well. that the only way to have truely portable code is to use the xml style tags (<?PHP ?>)

yes that's something simple to explain, but when there's 3 of those as the first 4 threads i go into then there's an issue witht he people on the site, and it's obvious they won't learn by just having the working code, they will copy and paste. nthing more. if you want to help someone tell them WHY.
without a why there's no garuntee of understanding.

NOW i'm in a bad mood because those that potentially have the ability to help me here are wasting their time on things that are explained in a basic book and don't understand that without an explanation of why that people will just copy and paste, that whayt they give is pointless unless they are TRYING to create script kiddies or are really just script kiddies themselves and cutting and pasting something they have that works

k89mmmk

You obviously have too much time and anger on your hands. Lighten up a bit. Keep an open mind. Get your nose out of your books and go for a walk. There's a wonderful world out there that your missing with all your anger.

And leave us to help others as we please.

m3rajk

m3rajk

The first thing to understand is that hackers actually like hard problems and good, thought-provoking questions about them. If we didn't, we wouldn't be here. If you give us an interesting question to chew on we'll be grateful to you; good questions are a stimulus and a gift. Good questions help us develop our understanding, and often reveal problems we might not have noticed or thought about otherwise. Among hackers, "Good question!" is a strong and sincere compliment.

Despite this, hackers have a reputation for meeting simple questions with what looks like hostility or arrogance. It sometimes looks like we're reflexively rude to newbies and the ignorant. But this isn't really true.

What we are, unapologetically, is hostile to people who seem to be unwilling to think or to do their own homework before asking questions. People like that are time sinks — they take without giving back, they waste time we could have spent on another question more interesting and another person more worthy of an answer. We call people like this "losers" (and for historical reasons we sometimes spell it "lusers").

k89mmmk

I've wasted enough time on you. Good day.

m3rajk

ummm.. hello????

you don't hav to be a hacker to appreciate that outlook. if the person isn't going to take the first step and open a book then there's no point to helping them because they sure as hell wont learn. they'll just badger you in the future.

I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE

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cassius

Stop beeing childish and mind your own business. Seems like you should find yourself another forum since the practice used here bothers you that much.

I'm pretty sure both 'k89mmmk' and myself got our feet planted pretty well on the face of the earth, but it seems you get pretty worked up reading this forum, so I suggest you return to your books or do something else for a while.

Discussions like these will indeed never give this forum a better quality, so I suggest to put an end to all this **** before it goes any further.

People have different views on everything in the world, so I would recommand that you respect others opinion and watch your language before posting any further replies/topics. This is not an arena to get back at others or showing off with your limericks.

You don't have to answer this post "m3rajk", I pretty much can guess what your answer will be anyway so you can keep it to yourself.

Have a nice night/day

mzanimephp

Yeah true. Newbies don't need you to explain everything all the time, usually when someone explains every single line of code it makes me get even more confused.

If there is one peice of code that I want to understand better, I only ask what that particular peice of code does. You should not criticise someone else for their way of helping someone else learn.

Besides, abhyajit didn't seem to complain at all, why should you?

m3rajk

i'm not saying to explain every line you [mod edit]....[/mod edit]
i'm saying that if the question is something that should be in intro to php section of any php book for beginners then the person hasn't done anything themselves to learn. if that's the case giving them code teaches jack shit! it means they are script kiddies. they go rip offf code and don't actually know a damn thing themselves.

i'm saying you're being a bunch of morons by giving him code. you explain nothing.. you should explain the tag styles or tell idiots that post this type of question to open a book. otherwise you're just as bad as sthe assholes thatmake those work/virus/trojan kits that allow script kiddies to pick attributes they want and have a worm/virrus/trojan made for them and they know jack shit about code

all you do is breed script kiddies that way.

now go read that site before you respond. because until you do you have no fucking clue where i'm coming from. i'm probalby younger than you and have been on the net longetr than you. i was one of the first people on the net. my friends and i were doing bbs servers in the 80s. we wereon with apple iies and such. we remember 9600 baud being something to boast about.

we may have had the morals and foresight not to become hackers, but we understand where the true hacker, not the script kiddie or cracker, gets his/her mentality, and we share it

feldon23

Someone seems to have forgotten that this is the PHP Help forum.

The downside to the ease of scripting in PHP is that people think they can learn by cutting and pasting.

seby

who said people don't learn PHP by others posting the code? Thats complete BS.

why? Because when i ask a question here that i do not know and someone else posts code(s) for me NOT ONLY do i copy&paste it, but I LOOK at it to learn from it, FOR NEXT TIME. If the code someone pasted has functions that i do not know, I look them up... I have found new functions that i never knew existed by others 'pasting' code.

you are totally, wrong in saying people won't learn if you paste the code for them... If the user really wants to learn they'll use the pasted code and look at it to learn from it.

i don't know where you went to school, but my teacher never threw a book at me and told me to learn it... THEY SHOWED ME.

i think you should get to know the community here before you go insulting people, everyone here comes here to learn and help others that want to learn...

When i first joined this site i didn't know half of what i know now,.. by people posting code i learned a great deal... Even pros learn something or two here.

mzanimephp

Originally posted by seby

i don't know where you went to school, but my teacher never threw a book at me and told me to learn it... THEY SHOWED ME.

Exactly! This guy is full of BS and should be banned. I learned CSS from looking at someone else's code, then I did all my own research and exploration to find new selectors and NOW my co-workers often come to ME for their CSS questions.

Same goes for PHP, I learn a lot just by looking and seeing how they solved certain problems. If I need additional help- I go look it up myself.