how do you echo the following special characters using PHP and make the browser display these:

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Help I am stuck with the following Problem and i cant figure this out. I am supposed to do the following in PHP:

Set a variable to the following: “<&¢£¥€©>” and output it as shown to the browser window.

Here is my code: <?php $str = "<&¢£¥€©>" echo htmlspecialchars($str); ?>

but i keep getting an error.

Why do you need to use htmlspecialchars when you already encode to HTML character already? — invisal, Mar 05 '17 at 01:56
Read from here (multiple solution available) : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17150403/how-should-i-echo-a-php-string-variable-that-contains-special-characters — Resheil Agarwal, Mar 05 '17 at 01:58

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 05 '17 at 01:56

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Missing semicolon

$str = "&lt;&amp;&cent;&pound;&yen;&euro;&copy;&gt;"; // <-- missing semicolon
echo htmlspecialchars($str);

answered Mar 05 '17 at 01:56

Yolo

Yes thank u all for your help, I was trying to print out those characters u mentioned. – calastinone Mar 06 '17 at 04:44

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 05 '17 at 01:57

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Do you mean you want to do something like this?

$str = "<&¢£¥€©>";
echo htmlspecialchars($str);

answered Mar 05 '17 at 01:57

invisal

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