Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 12/16/19 11:57

monomaniac21 wrote:
> hi all!
>
> how can i enter html and php into a db and display this within a
> TEXTAREA without it being processed as code? do i need to replace
> characters like <? with something else like say <..? or is there a more
> elegant solution that tells the php parser etc to ignore this section
> as it needs to be processed as text not code.
>
> regards
>
> marc
>

Before displaying any data like this you should run it through
htmlentities() to convert chars like "<" to "&lt;". Then it will
display correctly (and, BTW, not cause the code to be processed).

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