Print less-than and greater-than symbols in PHP

Question

I am have troubles trying to print out < > symbols in HTML using PHP.

I am appending a string \"\" to a v

Answer 1

The < and > symbols should be shown in the HTML source but the "<machine>" is interpreted as XML tag. Use htmlentities() to convert all special characters in the String into their HTML-equivalents, or use "&lt;machine&gt;"

Solution:

$output .= " <machine> ";
$output = htmlentites($output);
echo $output;