Displaying HTML

[E-Phibian]

Say I pulled some text explaining a few concepts of HTML, and I want to display it. How can I stop PHP from parsing the HTML code itself? I have tried using htmlspecialchars(), but now the formatting for the rest of the text disappears. (not all of it is code, but so far I have only been able to seperate different paragraphs by adding HTML into the body text)

Thank you for your time.

[olaf]

found this in the manual:

$orig = "I'll \"walk\" the <b>dog</b> now"; 

$a = htmlentities($orig); 

$b = html_entity_decode($a); 

echo $a; // I'll "walk" the &lt;b&gt;dog&lt;/b&gt; now 

echo $b; // I'll "walk" the <b>dog</b> now 

[E-Phibian]

Hmm Okay I see how you take care of the qoutes. But what if there was actual HTML in the body text that did need to be parsed, and other HTML that needed to be displayed?

[olaf]

just play with the function and order the total string like this:

echo "i want to explain a <b>htmltag</b> f.e.: ".htmlentities("<input type=\"text\" name=\"textfield\">");