PHP HTMLEntities for specific elements

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I am working with htmlentites() to replace characters with safe html, namely the PHP because I want to be able to show PHP examples. The problem I am running into is all the tags are replaced (ex: </p>, </br> etc). I know I can write a custom htmentities to only replace the <? tags and other specific xml tags but I was wondering is there something in PHP that already does this?

It appears that stakoverflow tags actual convert to html....its this an error or do I have to escape them on here to display them — Devin Dixon
– Devin Dixon, Commented Apr 17, 2011 at 15:33
Still I don't actually understand what you are talking about. — sh03
– sh03, Commented Apr 17, 2011 at 15:34

Treffynnon · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-17 15:49:30Z

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I would use the highlight_string() function in PHP as it will escape the characters and syntax highlight the code.

answered Apr 17, 2011 at 15:49

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