HTML,PHP - Escape '<' and '>' symbols while echoing

Question

I want to print following text as it is:

echo "<label> AAAAA";

But it is just showing 'AAAAA' as output.

How can I escape '<' and '>' symbol.

Answer 1

echo htmlentities("<label> AAAAA");

Answer 2

<?php
    $string = "<label> AAAAA"; //whatever you want
    echo htmlspecialchars($string);
?>

refrence htmlspecialchars

Answer 3

Use the htmlentities() function to convert into a plain text string.

<?php
echo htmlentities("<label> AAAAA");
?>

Answer 4

check this http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php, and this is code -

echo htmlentities ("<label> AAAAA");

Answer 5

You should escape your especial characters for HTML.

echo "<label> AAAA"

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp

Answer 6

echo "<label> AAAAA";

Answer 7

Use HTML entities: < for < and > for >. Could be achieved using htmlspecialchars function: http://php.net/htmlspecialchars.

Read more about HTML entities here: http://www.santagata.us/characters/CharacterEntities.html

Answer 8

Comment by ADyson worked:

while($rile = -> if($rile =... then it will just fetch the first item returned by the query, if any, and won't loop through all of them.

I replaced while with if.