Textarea and PHP.

Antinaris · #1 21-Nov-2003, 08:52

I want to know if it's possible to show PHP code in a textarea without the code being interpreted and then stock it in a MySQL table.

Thanks.

JdS · #2 21-Nov-2003, 09:06

Hello Antinaris,

Yes, it's possible....

If you want to simply display the PHP code in a textarea:

PHP Code:


<?php
// assume that $php_code is the var that holds the text/code from the db
$display_code = htmlentities( $php_code, ENT_QUOTES );
echo '<textarea>'.$display_code.'</textarea>';
?>

I think that's it!

BobbyDouglas · #3 21-Nov-2003, 09:09

Well, it would be very easy to display the code in a textarea, you would have to use I think javascript though so it does not count the php code as code itself, and think it is page of the page.

Storing it then into MySQL Table, heh, I dunno. I would think it would be hard to do because you would have to have the code changed if you used javascript to display the code in a textarea.

View the source code for: mrbobdouglas[dot]com/dev/errorpage_gen.php

You will notice that I have to use a / in a lot of areas making a note not ti accept this as a PHP tag.

Your script would have to be able to modify the /'s that would be added to your code in order to display them in a textarea.

JdS might have an easier way to display the code inside a textarea without adding any changes to it, and without allowing it work as php code inside the page.

If you can do that, I think a simple script to store the information from a textarea to a MySQL table would be easy to do.

<edit>JdS beat me to the post... pfff!</edit>

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