[ashishjha54]

hello to all,
i want to create a variable in my webpage that will contain source -codes of languages and echo it when necessary.say,
$source='php code or c code or sql code';
echo $source;
but the problem is that whenever i put php code or sql code or any code in $source and try to execute it .the php code inside $ source starts executing .is it possible that whatever code i put in $source ,it is taken as text string and echo it as test whenevr we need it.it should not get executed and it should not interfere with the rest of the php code.
in short ,i just want to source code in $source variable and print it on the webpage.how can i do it?

[liljoeyjordison]

Use single quotes ' instead of double quotes " so

$foo = ' date(d M Y h:i a) ' ;
echo $foo ;

will output date(d... instead of 28 Apr 2005 10:44 am

[ashishjha54]

i want to print the source code not its output

[ashishjha54]

i tried putting it within single brackets but it gives erros saying wrong syntax
i am using this
$source='<?php
if ( !defined('MODULE') )
{
die("access denied");
}

//Here we define out main variables
$welcome_string="Welcome!";
$numeric_date=date("G");

//Start conditionals based on military time
if($numeric_date>=0&&$numeric_date<=11)
$welcome_string="Good Morning!";
else if($numeric_date>=12&&$numeric_date<=17)
$welcome_string="Good Afternoon!";
else if($numeric_date>=18&&$numeric_date<=23)
$welcome_string="Good Evening!";

//Display our greeting
echo "$welcome_string";

?>
';
and it gives parsing error.i want to print the contents of $source variable.

[liljoeyjordison]

Originally Posted by ashishjha54

if ( !defined('MODULE') )

You have single quotes in the variable, so it ends the string. Try using
if ( !defined("MODULE")) instead

[Acecool]

highlight_string()

Edit:

Originally Posted by liljoeyjordison

You have single quotes in the variable, so it ends the string. Try using
if ( !defined("MODULE")) instead

Single quotes is fine, actuatly a LOT better than double quotes.

Edit:
Add slashes to the string...

[liljoeyjordison]

Oh yeah, forgot about that

[FiRe]

PHP Code:

$source='<?php

if ( !defined(\'MODULE\') ) 

{ 

die("access denied"); 

} 



//Here we define out main variables

$welcome_string="Welcome!";

$numeric_date=date("G");



//Start conditionals based on military time

if($numeric_date>=0&&$numeric_date<=11)

$welcome_string="Good Morning!";

else if($numeric_date>=12&&$numeric_date<=17)

$welcome_string="Good Afternoon!";

else if($numeric_date>=18&&$numeric_date<=23)

$welcome_string="Good Evening!";



//Display our greeting

echo "$welcome_string";



?>

';



echo highlight_string(stripslashes($source), true);