PHP display raw XML code

How to stop IE from parsing?

[bcolflesh]

I have some XML data in a MySQL text field that I want to display "as-is" on a PHP page - if I echo the contents, IE parses & just displays the contents and not the XML markup.

I'm sure I'm overlooking an obvious solution - what is it?

Regards,
Brent

[daisho]

try to wrap it in <pre> </pre> tags. This tells the web browser to display the content asis (ie no parsing)

daisho.

[daisho]

Sorry bcolflesh it doesn't look like my last suggestion would work. Look into the htmlentities() function it will convert all HTML special chars to encoded chars. You may still want to use the <pre> tags for readability.

daisho

[bcolflesh]

Daisho - thanks for the reply - you are correct that it doesn't cure my issue - but it does make for nice formatting.

How do these forums or code snippet websites display the raw XML inline? Must be more complicated than wrapping it in some tag I don't know about.

Regards,
Brent

[grahamstewart]

Try the htmlentities() function.

[daisho]

As I noted (though not very clearly) in msg3, and that grahamstewart suggests use the PHP function htmlentities() on your XML data to encode all HTML special chars.

daisho.

[bcolflesh]

I'm afraid I should have mentioned that I was trying that next - and it works!

Thank you to both you guys(?) - I appreciate the help.

Regards,
Brent