A fundamental use of the PHP programming language is to build dynamic web applications. Hence, we often need to print information in HTML inside a PHP web application. This guide will learn about two main ways to print HTML content on a PHP web application. If you know the basics of PHP and get output, you know about the echo method. It is used extensively in PHP to output
values on the screen. Although the echo method does not behave like a function, more like a constructor, you can add parenthesis to the statement if required. Like any other valid PHP statement, you terminate it with a semi-colon. The echo method will take the content inside the quotes and print it to the screen. You can use the echo statement to print strings, variables, results from expressions and functions, and more. The examples below show how to use the echo
statement. The above examples contain multiple statements that can print strings, numbers, and variable
interpolation. If you want to print multiple statements, you can specify each of them separated by comma as shown in the example below: To print HTML markup using the echo statement, we can pass the content to it as shown in the
example below: The code above will print valid HTML content. The other method we can use to print HTML markup in PHP is the print function. It is similar to
echo, except it behaves like a standard PHP function. It accepts a single argument meaning it can print a single string. The following is a simple example of the print method. Like echo, you can output strings, numbers, and variables using the print statement. To print HTML content using the print statement, you can do:
The above should process the markup and display it accordingly. If you want to learn how to print PHP values and variables inside HTML, check our tutorial on the topic. This tutorial taught you how to print HTML markup inside a PHP file. This helps make the web page dynamic as you can fetch information from the server and display it on the browser. PHP Echo Function
PHP Print Function
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I have HTML tags present inside php variable. I want to print the values as it is. Here is what i tried.
$str = "A 'quote' is bold";
echo htmlentities[$str];
// Outputs: A 'quote' is <b>bold</b>
echo $str; //out puts as follows
A 'quote' is bold
But i want to print it as
A 'quote' is bold
Also, Is there any setting can be done at the TOP of the php page, so that i dont need to use it in every php variables ?
asked Feb 23, 2014 at 12:38
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Just use
$str = "A 'quote' is bold ";
echo htmlspecialchars[$str];
because htmlentities convert some characters to HTML entities.
You should instead use htmlspecialchars
It replaces characters as below:
'&' [ampersand] becomes &
'"' [double quote] becomes " when ENT_NOQUOTES is not set.
"'" [single quote] becomes ' only when ENT_QUOTES is set.
'' [greater than] becomes >
You can check php fiddle here
answered Feb 23, 2014 at 12:43
ShivaShiva
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This should work -
$str = "A 'quote' is bold";
echo "".$str."";
//Outputs - A 'quote' is bold
EDIT:
is deprecated as was pointed out in the comments, and this seems to be the workaround for it[using the tag and htmlentities]-
$str = "A 'quote' is bold";
echo "".htmlentities[$str]."
";
//Outputs - A 'quote' is bold
answered Feb 23, 2014 at 12:51
KamehamehaKamehameha
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If you want to print HTML, don't use htmlentities.
If this is user input, you should still filter it.
Edit:
If you want the browser to show the text as A 'quote' is bold, htmlspecialchars or htmlentities is the correct function to use as they escape the HTML code and the browser will show the tags as you want.
BenMorel
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answered Feb 23, 2014 at 12:41
max-mmax-m
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to make it as setting..
answered Feb 23, 2014 at 13:43
loganlogan
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