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

Question

I want to print following text as it is:

echo "<label> AAAAA";

But it is just showing 'AAAAA' as output.

How can I escape '<' and '>' symbol.

Answer 1

Use htmlspecialchars.

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

Answer 2

echo htmlentities("<label> AAAAA");