[thelist] Please help.. PHP guru's

[Jay Blanchard]

[snip]
I have a string:
$str = '<p>This is a paragraph<p><?php echo \'hello\'; 
?>';

Which I convert using:
html_entity_decode(stripslashes($str));

Which result in:
<p>This is a paragraph</p><?php echo 'hello'; ?>


But.. I need to manipulate the string in such a way that the PHP tags to

STAY ENCODED like:
<p>This is a paragraph</p>&lt;?php echo 'hello'; ?&gt;
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This is just a bad way to code this, especially if you plan to echo the
string $str ...why are you embedding another set of PHP tags? But to do
it use single quotes...

$str = '<p>This is a paragraph</p>&lt;?php echo \'hello\'; ?&gt;';
echo $str;