Inserting HTML code in an HTML page

HI,

I am creating a little web site where I would like to publish articles. In
the articles I usually display examples of programming languages code, or
HTML code. Now, I get the articles by PHP and MySQL, or accessing a MySQL
table using a PHP script. The article itself is a text type field in a
database table. I insert text and code of the article, but, when I want to
display it, for example, the HTML code of the example isn't showed, but
there are only white lines. Now I would like something don'tlet this code
be interpreted, as to be displayed as it is.

Thanks

Franc

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And lo, Francesky didst speak in alt.www.webmaster:

> HI,
>
> I am creating a little web site where I would like to publish articles.
> In
> the articles I usually display examples of programming languages code, or
> HTML code. Now, I get the articles by PHP and MySQL, or accessing a MySQL
> table using a PHP script. The article itself is a text type field in a
> database table. I insert text and code of the article, but, when I want
> to
> display it, for example, the HTML code of the example isn't showed, but
> there are only white lines. Now I would like something don'tlet this code
> be interpreted, as to be displayed as it is.

Before you display the HTML code in the field, just replace all < and >
with their respective HTML entities. Your sig says you know PHP so here's
a quick example:

$htmlString = str_replace(array("<", ">"), array("&lt;", "&gt;"),
$htmlString);

Grey

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> Before you display the HTML code in the field, just replace all < and >
> with their respective HTML entities. Your sig says you know PHP so here's
> a quick example:
>
> $htmlString = str_replace(array("<", ">"), array("&lt;", "&gt;"),
> $htmlString);
>

Well, it works, but I wanted something that in some part of the article
could have been disabled html interpretation, whele in other parts not.

For example, in the same article I put an img tag like this

<img src="/articles/art4/image_name1.png">

to diplay an image in the article.


Francesco



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GreyWyvern wrote:
> And lo, Francesky didst speak in alt.www.webmaster:
>
> > HI,
> >
> > I am creating a little web site where I would like to publish articles.
> > In
> > the articles I usually display examples of programming languages code, or
> > HTML code. Now, I get the articles by PHP and MySQL, or accessing a MySQL
> > table using a PHP script. The article itself is a text type field in a
> > database table. I insert text and code of the article, but, when I want
> > to
> > display it, for example, the HTML code of the example isn't showed, but
> > there are only white lines. Now I would like something don'tlet this code
> > be interpreted, as to be displayed as it is.
>
> Before you display the HTML code in the field, just replace all < and >
> with their respective HTML entities. Your sig says you know PHP so here's
> a quick example:
>
> $htmlString = str_replace(array("<", ">"), array("&lt;", "&gt;"),
> $htmlString);
>
> Grey
>
> --
> The technical axiom that nothing is impossible sinisterly implies the
> pitfall corollory that nothing is ridiculous.
> - http://www.greywyvern.com - Orca Knowledgebase: Completely CSS styleable
> Knowledgebase/FAQ system

In addition to this suggesstion, you may want to use the <pre> tag to
keep all white space formatting (new lines and the such) the same as in
the original code.

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> sure, but these are different elements of your document and deserve a
> different treatment.

I think I need something like in Wiki, where one could use formatting tags
to insert various object, text, images, ecc.

Frank

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