Question

I am trying to output the results from a field that is read from mysql.
the field has this in it.

< ? echo "yes"; ? >

however when i try to print the field… it is null.

do i have to escape it on output?

i dont want to execute the code.. i want to output what is in the field as text

Answer 1

You have to escape with htmlspecialchars()

$val = htmlspecialchars ('<?php echo "yes"; ?>');
echo $val;