Display HTML code

daniel0012 · 03-10-2007, 10:40 PM

I want to email and HTML code to someone so they can use it but I don't want the browser to read and display the code.

digiweb · 03-10-2007, 10:56 PM

could you re-state that? Because the server is doing the sending so the browser would never see the html the recipient receives anyway.

daniel0012 · 03-10-2007, 10:59 PM

Code:

<html> <blah blah>

I want to be able to make a box like that so I can display a code.

Hades · 03-11-2007, 12:33 AM

You have 2 options,

1) Send the email in Plain Text Only format, so it will not render the HTML code.
2) Use PHP or some other language to parse the code and convert its entities to plain text before sending the email. If you use PHP you can make it work with the htmlentities function.

daniel0012 · 03-11-2007, 06:42 AM

What I really want to do is have a web page display the code for the person to copy.
I worded it poorly. Sorry.
Like when you go to a website that has codes for use, and the code is in this text box.
Like on this site.

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex16/showhint.htm

Hades · 03-11-2007, 09:24 AM

Ok, you need a bit of PHP skills to do that.

Having your code stored in a variable, you can convert it using the htmlentities function.

PHP Code:


		
			
$myCode = "<p>Hello!</p>";

$myHTML = htmlentities($myCode);

echo($myHTML);

That will display the code in the page.

daniel0012 · 03-11-2007, 11:49 AM

Thanks for your help.