How do I echo html tags in PHP Variable?

Question

Say, $var = "Hello<br>How are <strong>you</strong>";

I want echo $var to display the assigned string Hello<br>How are <strong>you</strong> as it is not the parsed html code.

How do I do that?

Answer 1

HTML tags will automatically parsed by the browser. To see the pure HTML source anyways, the tags needs to be encoded, especially the angle brackets.

There is a dedicated PHP function available for that called htmlentities() .

$var = "Hello<br>How are <strong>you</strong>";
echo htmlentitites($var);

Will encode it in the browser so you can see it displayed as plain text like in $var . The browser will see this:

Hello<br>How are <strong>you</strong>