Showing code ???

I created a very primative site management system for myself. Keep in mind that I am still a NooB with PHP.

What I am trying to do is Create an article where I talk about something I did, then I show the code of what i did. Currently it all goes into a mysql table. when I put in the following 'echo "this is code"; ' into the table i just see what was supposed to be echo'ed. i dont see 'echo' How could I put in html code into the db and display it without having all the html code on 1 line. thats what happened when i used htmlspecialchars().

Can someone tell me how devarticles.com(this wonderful site) show the code highlighted in yellow ?

THANKS MUCH !!!

To get the code (and article contents) spaced out as you write them, you need to convert your new-line-feed characters to "<br/>" tags. I am not sure the exact code for this in PHP, but it would be a simple replace command.

The easiest way would be to replace < with < and > with >



This is one way of doing it. And the function that replaces /n with <br /> is nl2br(). Also for more info check str_replace().

you could then do something like



that should highlight everything that is inside the $article var in yellow.....

ps.. welcome to the forums!!

Or you could use highlight_string() (http://www.php.net/manual/en/functi...ight-string.php) which does all the hard work for you!

Hadley

Ok. First let me say THANKS. But I have another question:

if i have the var $article= to the following code ->


however, when I echo the $article var out, everything is on 1 line like this:
<?php echo "first line"; echo "second line"; echo "third line"; ?>

How can I keep the same format as the top code ???

Thanks again

It was already mentioned a bit higher up. Use nl2br().



How about now?

YES !!! that worked.
it is working great.

THANK YOU !!!