Output "<"/">" Character in HTML

Question

I'm trying to display "<"/">" as String in HTML not as a tag.

I have a database that contains user's Fullname and Email and when I want display them both I have a format like this:

Christian Eric Paran <[email protected]>

but I it only display like this:

Christian Eric Paran

is there a way to Display this in HTML from PHP?

Answer 1

Represent characters with special meaning (< → < & & → & being the ones you need to worry about in text nodes) in HTML using character references.

The htmlspecialchars function will convert for you.

print htmlspecichars("Christian Eric Paran <[email protected]>");

Answer 2

Problem is, the < and > are used by HTML to delimit tags. The email address thus ends up parsed as an HTML tag, and ends up hidden by most if not all browsers.

Use < to display a < in HTML, and > for >.

If the data will be dynamic, use htmlentities or htmlspecialchars to do the above encoding for you prior to printing it.