echo html as text with PHP variable - php

I need to display a large amount of html as text(a table) which contains PHP variables. Now I would like to know if there is a command that echos the HTML as text, but keeps the PHP.
I know I can change the > with >. I'm just wondering if there is a better way to do this.
<table style="width:400px">
<tr>
<td><b style="font-size:27px;">$_POST['name']</b></td>
<td rowspan="2"> IMG</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b style="font-size:23px;font-weight:400">$_POST['function']</b></td>
</tr>
</table>
This is only a part of it of course.
TL;DR: I want to echo the above text(as text, not code) but the variables from PHP need to execute as code.

Pushing it through the htmlentities function when you output the data should work. The function will convert whatever string you put in into one that looks exactly the same when rendered in HTML, which seems to be what you want.

Use htmlspecialchars and add curly braces around PHP variables:
$string = "<table style=\"width:400px\">
<tr>
<td><b style=\"font-size:27px;\">{$_POST['name']}</b></td>
<td rowspan=\"2\"> IMG</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b style=\"font-size:23px;font-weight:400\">{$_POST['function']}</b></td>
</tr>
</table>";
echo htmlspecialchars($string);

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Im trying to echo a variable into an already existing DIV within a table.
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<table>
<tr>
<td class="error"> </td>
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<?php
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?>
Note: the error td tag is already style and positioned within a table.
The method above causes a lone td tag to be created and added to the top of
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I realise it's probably best to echo php in HTML rather than vice versa but
I need echo HTML in this instance.
Is this possible ?
The simplest solution, if I am understanding correctly:
<table>
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</tr>
</table>
You have to echo in-place.

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I want to extract values from the code below.
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but its result is not what I am looking for..
is there any simple RegEx to extract them? Thanks!
It should work for you:
preg_match_all("~downloadFile\('(\d+)'\)\">([^<]*)</a>~", $getinside, $matches);
Remember: If your html is very large/complex and you also need to parse more other things from there, then regex is not a better option to do this.

Layout problems (php,html)

I made some images which i need, currently i have :
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<tr>
<td align='center'><b>{$name}</b></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td align='center'><img src='$avatar'/></td> </tr>
<td align='center'><b>Points</b>: {$points}</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td align='center'><b>Status</b>:<b><font color='green'> {$misc['text_status']}</font></b></td> </tr>
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or better one, place individual tables with float:left for each member
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Displaying the text in the multiple lines when retrieving from database

Hi
I have a table in which my row contains the text which i retrieve from the database.But i have a small width of row and the data i retrieve is large.And the text exceeds the width of my row so i want to break the data i retrieve into multi lines inside the table row.How can i do it.
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//print_r($list);
//die;
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?>
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<tr bgcolor="#E8E8E8">
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Set width of <td>. I think this is the best way to do this rather than word_wrap().
In your css for the table, use "table-layout:fixed" - This fixes the td elements width according to the way you want.
" word-wrap: break-word; " - this breaks the text in it so that it doesnt go beyond the boundary of the box.
You need to wrap the text in your td tags. Here is a link to a similar question
You could use the function wordwrap().
It wraps a string to a given number of characters using a string break character.
you can either use the php function
php wordwrap
or styling the td with css so that it uses the word-wrap attribute
css wordwrap
Not sure if this is what you want, but sound like you could use chunk_split()

How Can I Get Data From HTML Source Code with PHP and RegEx?

I have got HTML source code, and i must get some information text in the HTML. I can not use DOM, because the document isn't well-formed.
Maybe, the source could change later, I can not be aware of this situation. So, the solution of this problem must be advisible for most situation.
Im getting source with curl, and i will edit it with preg_match_all function and regular expressions.
Source :
...
<TR Class="Head1">
<TD width="15%"><font size="12">Name</font></TD>
<TD>: </TD>
<TD align="center"><font color="red">Alex</font></TD>
<TD width="25%"><b>Job</b></TD>
<TD>: </B></TD>
<TD align="center" width="25%"><font color="red">Doctor</font></TD>
</TR>
...
...
<TR Class="Head2">
<TD width="15%" align="left">Age</B></TD>
<TD>: </TD>
<TD align="center"><font color="red">32</font></TD>
<TD width="15%"><font size="10">data</TD></font>
<TD> </B></TD>
<TD width="40%"> </TD>
</TR>
...
As we have seen, the source is not well-formed. In fact, terrible! But there is nothing I can do.
The source is longer than this.
How can I get the data from the source? I can delete all of HTML codes, but how can i know sequence of data? What can I do with preg_match_all and regex? What else can I do?
Im waiting for your help.
If you can use the DOM this is far better than regexes. Take a look a PHP Tidy - it's designed to manage badly formed HTML.
You can use DOMDocument to load badly formed HTML:
$doc = new DOMDocument();
#$doc->loadHTML('<TR Class="Head2">
<TD width="15%" align="left">Age</B></TD>
<TD>: </TD>
<TD align="center"><font color="red">32</font></TD>
<TD width="15%"><font size="10">data</TD></font>
<TD> </B></TD>
<TD width="40%"> </TD>
</TR>');
$tds = #$doc->getElementsByTagName('td');
foreach ($tds as $td) {
echo $td->textContent, "\n";
}
I'm suppressing warnings in the above code for brevity.
Output:
Age
:
32
data
<!-- space -->
<!-- space -->
Using regex to parse HTML can be a futile effort as HTML is not a regular language.
Don't use RegEx. The link is funny but not informative, so the long and short of it is that HTML markup is not a regular language, hence cannot be parsed simply using regular expressions.
You could use RegEx to parse individual 'tokens' ( a single open tag; a single attribute name or value...) as part of a recursive parsing algorithm, but you cannot use a magic RegEx to parse HTML all on its own.
Or you could use a parser.
Since the markup isn't valid, maybe you could use TagSoup or PHP:Tidy.
$regex = <<<EOF
<TR Class="Head2">\s+<TD width="15%" align="left">Age</B></TD>\s+<TD>: </TD>\s+<TD align="center"><font color="red">(\d+)</font></TD>\s+<TD width="15%"><font size="10">(\w+)</TD></font>\s+<TD> </B></TD>\s+<TD width="40%"> </TD>\s+</TR>
EOF;
preg_match_all($regex, $text, $result);
var_dump($result)

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