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

Question

I want to print following text as it is:

echo \" AAAAA\";

But it is just showing \'AAAAA\' as output.

How can I esca

Answer 1

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

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

Answer 2

echo htmlentities("<label> AAAAA");

Answer 3

Use htmlspecialchars.

<?php
    echo htmlspecialchars("abc & < >");
?>

Answer 4

You should escape your especial characters for HTML.

echo "<label> AAAA"

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

Answer 5

echo "<label> AAAAA";

Answer 6

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