Avoiding html thinking you are using a custom tag

Question

I am trying to output a text value from a php array. The value is

<Carlos>

However when echo'd to the page nothing shows because the browser has transformed it to

<Carlos></Carlos>

How do I stop it from transforming it into tags?

Answer 1

Escape it, for example using htmlentities(). You'd end up with:

<Carlos>

Answer 2

Do you mean you want to print

<Carlos>

? Apply htmlentities on the string to echo.

Answer 3

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php

Answer 4

if all you've written on the page is <Carlos> HTML won't automatically parse it to <Carlos></Carlos>. I reckon its the view source of your browser.

try

<Carlos>