Help Needed! Text Area & HTML Code In PHP

[Jake]

Basically, I am attempting (and failing) to insert some code that will allow someone to copy and paste code that is generated for them.

Here's an example:

See how easy it is to copy this?

It allows you to copy everything inside the box, without copying everything else on the page.

I'm doing this in a PHP file, and I'm finding it to be impossible without getting a "Parse Error"

Can anyone help, or put me in the right direction?

 

[Peter]

All you need to do is place it within its own div as it is on this forum.

for example:-

<div id='text'>See how easy it is to copy this?</div>

Once you have created the div you could always apply css to it so it stands out.

 

[qbert220]

I'm doing this in a PHP file, and I'm finding it to be impossible without getting a "Parse Error"

If you still get the parse error, post your PHP code and we should be able to help you. As a guess, it may be that you've added a quote character without escaping it. e.g.

echo '<div id='text'>See how easy it is to copy this?</div>';

will generate a parse error. To fix it, you need to escape the quotes by putting a backslash before it, like this:

echo '<div id=\'text\'>See how easy it is to copy this?</div>';

 

[Jake]

Thanks! I got it to work

Rep coming!