PHP - Removing the effect of HTML tags in a string - BUT also displaying them?

Question

Consider strip_tags().

strip_tags("<b>TEXT</b>");

Conclusion:

TEXT

But what if I want to nullify the effect of tags, but showing them?

Conclusion:

<b> TEXT </b>

Should i use preg_replace()? Or is there a more elegant solution?

Thanks: D

Answer 1

You can encode HTML through htmlspecialchars :

htmlspecialchars("<b>TEXT</b>");

Answer 2

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Answer 3

You can always just replace <with <and >with >, yes?