Handling a <?php tag in a string (php 5.3)

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I'm creating an auto documenter for our APIs. Part of the documentation will be a code example -- pretty much just shows the array of data that should be passed to the API and the curl commands to execute it.

I have this mostly working, but the opening <?php is causing me problems. The best thing I've found is to do

$code_example = "\n<\?php ... ";

I don't have this issue in php 5.5, but our API servers (where this will be running) are on 5.3 at the time being. I don't really like escaping the tag, but it might be the only way I can do it.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

@Devon I'm not sure what you mean. I have a script that generates a string which is a PHP file. This gets stored into our API documentation database, but I either have to escape the opening tag, or the first couple lines get cut off — Matt Altepeter
– Matt Altepeter, Commented Feb 17, 2016 at 15:09

Kelvin · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-17 15:09:13Z

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Your question problem is not clear. But maybe you want print code to document. Try convert your code_example text with function htmlspecialchar before print

answered Feb 17, 2016 at 15:09

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