php echoing angle brackets

Question

I want to display text on the page, the text should look like this:

<sometext> ... but when I echo this, nothing appears!!

How ca I do this?

Answer 1

A "page" is written in HTML, so < means "Start a tag".

You have to represent characters with special meaning in HTML using entities.

You can write them directly, or make use of the htmlspecialchars function.

echo "<sometext>";
echo htmlspecialchars("<sometext>");