How do I display PHP code instead of displaying output?

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I have a string variable which also has some PHP code in it. The code in the string var is getting run whenever I am displaying the string with echo. Is there anything (function) which can escape the meaning of PHP code while I use it with string?

Please help?

Could you post your code? Echoing the php code should not execute it. — greg0ire
– greg0ire, Commented Jul 1, 2010 at 10:37
I got confuse actually, that code had a meta tag refresh, which was executing and page was getting loaded whenever I try to load that page. It's fixed, what a silly mistake. Yes you guys are right, we can't execute php code in echo. Anyways, thank you all guys. — SachinKRaj
– SachinKRaj, Commented Jul 6, 2010 at 10:05

Prix · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-01 10:37:20Z

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Using single quotes

echo 'foo is $foo';

will return foo is $foo

For more references: http://php.net/manual/en/function.echo.php

answered Jul 1, 2010 at 10:37

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2023-11-17 19:32:19Z

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If you are already outputting the string, you might want to substitute echo for:

highlight_string — Syntax highlighting of a string

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very interesting, cookie for you.

Svisstack · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-01 10:36:18Z

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You can't execute PHP code by echo it to web browser by HTTP.

I mean you think about HTML, you can use htmlspecialchars to escape html code and print it without parse by browser like a HTML code.

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