Question

Ok I need to find out what is contained inside a PHP variable and I have it to do it visually, is there a function to display whatever that’s contained in a string as it is?

For example :

$TEST = '&nbsp' . "\n" . ' ';

if I use echo the output will be :

while i want it to be :

&nbsp\n&nbsp

is it possible? (I hope I was clear enough)

ty

Answer 1

You can use json_encode with htmlspecialchars:

$TEST = ' ' . "\n" . ' ';
echo json_encode(htmlspecialchars($TEST));

Note that json_encode has third agrument in PHP 5.4.