How to output a string containing text surrounded by angle brackets? [duplicate] - php

I want to print following text as it is:
echo "<label> AAAAA";
But it is just showing 'AAAAA' as output.
How can I escape '<' and '>' symbol.


Use htmlspecialchars.
<?php
echo htmlspecialchars("abc & < >");
?>


<?php
$string = "<label> AAAAA"; //whatever you want
echo htmlspecialchars($string);
?>
refrence htmlspecialchars


echo htmlentities("<label> AAAAA");


Use the htmlentities() function to convert into a plain text string.
<?php
echo htmlentities("<label> AAAAA");
?>


check this http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php, and this is code -
echo htmlentities ("<label> AAAAA");


You should escape your especial characters for HTML.
echo "<label> AAAA"
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp


echo "<label> AAAAA";


Use HTML entities: < for < and > for >. Could be achieved using htmlspecialchars function: http://php.net/htmlspecialchars.
Read more about HTML entities here: http://www.santagata.us/characters/CharacterEntities.html

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I am trying to output the results from a field that is read from mysql.
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I guess htmlspecialchars is that what you want:
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I want to print following text as it is:
echo "<label> AAAAA";
But it is just showing 'AAAAA' as output.
How can I escape '<' and '>' symbol.

Use htmlspecialchars.
<?php
echo htmlspecialchars("abc & < >");
?>

<?php
$string = "<label> AAAAA"; //whatever you want
echo htmlspecialchars($string);
?>
refrence htmlspecialchars

echo htmlentities("<label> AAAAA");

Use the htmlentities() function to convert into a plain text string.
<?php
echo htmlentities("<label> AAAAA");
?>

check this http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php, and this is code -
echo htmlentities ("<label> AAAAA");

You should escape your especial characters for HTML.
echo "<label> AAAA"
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp

echo "<label> AAAAA";

Use HTML entities: < for < and > for >. Could be achieved using htmlspecialchars function: http://php.net/htmlspecialchars.
Read more about HTML entities here: http://www.santagata.us/characters/CharacterEntities.html

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I have a string with XML:
$string =
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And would like display it on my website like this:
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<shoes>
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formatted with proper new lines
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you can use htmlentities(), htmlspecialchars() or some similar function.

It should work like that:
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