In a database, I have the text <b>ISBOLD</b><i>isitalic</i>
How do I do that if I pull out this string, I will see
ISBOLD isitalic
and not
<b>ISBOLD</b><i>isitalic</i>
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A:
There are a couple of ways:
You basically have to convert the special characters into the entity references.
That means changing<to<and>to>etc.. In PHP there is a function which does this for you calledhtmlentitiesWrap that output in an
<xmp>tag.
Option one is probably the better method.
nickf
2009-08-13 22:53:53
Isn't converting < to < going the opposite direction being asked for?
Frank Schwieterman
2009-08-13 22:58:05
This is correct why was this downvoted?
Darknight
2009-08-13 22:58:53
I think it's a bit of "lost in translation" in the question. The way I read it, he's echoing out a string, and the browser is displaying it as HTML, whereas he wants to see the string in plain text. Converting a HTML string to HTML shouldn't be a problem..?
nickf
2009-08-13 23:02:14