how to give people a code

hi
when you want to give your users a peice of code to place on their site how do you do that?
because codes are usually executed before displaying you know
thanks

 

using codes inside the <textarea> tags will not execute them.
Hope you get an idea and try working on it.
Good luck .

 

thanks
i want to give them this code ( please notice the php variabes)

<p align=center>
<form method=POST action="<?php echo "http://domain.tld/search.php?searchid=$searchid&publisher=$publisher";?>" >
<input type=text size="<?php echo $size; ?>" name="q">
<input type=submit value="Search the Web" name=submit>
</form>
</p>

HTML:

 

or just copy and paste it to them in an email lol

 

you could try this :

$somthing = '<p align=center><form method=POST action="http://domain.tld/search.php?searchid='.$searchid.'&publisher='.$publisher">
<input type=text size="$size" name="q">
<input type=submit value="Search the Web" name=submit></form></p>' ;

PHP:

and make a textarea for example :

 
Here's your code : <TEXTAREA NAME="code" COLS=40 ROWS=6>
<? echo $something  ?> 
</TEXTAREA>
 

PHP:

Debug it yourself since i haven't tested it .
good luck again.

 

solved
php tags are executed in textareas but html ones are not. ( at least in ff)

 

yes .Php codes are executed in all browsers inside the textarea .
even in my example , $something is a php code inside the textarea and gets executed to display the result.
Anyway , I'm glad you got it working.

 

try htmlspecialchars()

 

you could use the <code> tag in html. Then just have to convert all the code to show up (so using &lt; instead of < and so on for all html special characters), this is what I do, so it will validate correctly.