Textarea and PHP.

[Antinaris]

I want to know if it's possible to show php code in a textarea without the code being interpreted and then stock it in a MySQL table.
thanks

[jdiben]

If you dont want the code to be seen as code use

<?php
code....
?>

instead of

<?php
code....
?>

The code will be seen as text.

[Elite Skills]

go to the php manual and make yourself a parser for if you have a lot of code and do it repeatedly. There's a function to convert html entities automatically so you can just copy and paste once done.

[swstyles]

the asp equivalent is server.htmlencode()

[Deep13]

using htmlentities() function shall help you out...

usage

htmlentities($VariableName)

regards
Deep

[computergenius]

I can't see what your problem is - surely, all you need to do is leave the <? and ?> out:
<textarea name="task" cols="60" rows="15">
echo "Hello World";
</textarea>