Display code as plain text?

[duckduckgoose]

Hi there, can someone tell me how to display code as plain text on an html page? I've tried using <PRE> and <TEXTAREA> but that isn't working. <LI> is still transformed into a bullet, and other things like that keep happening. <TEXTAREA> just makes it look really messy.

Basically, I want something exactly like this:

<?

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
  echo "This is exactly what I want to do.";
} else {
  echo "Dangit. I can't figure it out.";
}

?>

[thorpe]

What kind of code? html?

[Drakla]

[man]highlight_file[/man] or [man]highlight_string[/man] or maybe just [man]htmlspecialchars[/man]

[PABobo]

you shold do a str_replace for the special entitites. There may e an easier way but old faithfull seems to work

http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/special.html

[madwormer2]

There is no need to use str_replace.

A simple htmlspecialchars() call should suffice. You'd probably want to use it inside <pre> tags as well, as this will mean the whitespace remains.