php coding question

[Chimpie]

Let's say I'm coding a simple php page non-xenforo). As part of this page I want to write, "To code this, it should look like ..." where I would display that code. What would I wrap the code in so that it does execute?

 

[Chimpie]

<pre> doesn't work

 

[turtile]

I don't know PHP but couldn't you just use a string (echo).

 

[Chimpie]

I got it solved.
Replace < with &lt; and replace > with &gt;

 

[EQnoble]

I don't know PHP but couldn't you just use a string (echo).

If you just echo a string containing html it will output and be recognized as html.

Let's say I'm coding a simple php page non-xenforo). As part of this page I want to write, "To code this, it should look like ..." where I would display that code. What would I wrap the code in so that it does execute?

You just need to encode the html entities, here is an example of how to do that

$exampleCode = '<div>example html here</div>';
echo 'To code this, it should look like ...' . htmlentities($exampleCode);

To code this, it should look like ...&lt;div&gt;example html here&lt;/div&gt;