How to get code to be visible on a web page

Hi,

I want to show visitors to my site the code they need to use to make a link to my site.

Trouble is - when i use the code, it is converted into a link - i want the actual code for the link to be visible on the webpage so the visitor can copy it.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks.

Are you talking about the URL to your website?

use php to get and display it:

<php>
$url = "http://" . $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];

echo $url;

</php>
or echo it into an input field:

<form>
<input type="text" value="<?php echo $url; ?>" />
</form>

I've not used php before and i've tried the form code you mentioned but it doesn't seem to work.

The exact code i want to appear on the page is:

<p>We're a partner of <a href="http://www.findashopfitter.co.uk" target="_blank">Findashopfitter.co.uk for (insert your county or counties here).</a></p>

Or, if you don't want to mess with php, then you need to convert the < and > symbols to their html equivalents - then the page will show the code not a link.

So, to display:<a href="mylink">Link text</a>

you need the following on your page:

&lt;a href="mylink"&gt;Link text&lt;/a&gt;

You'll see that < is replaced by &lt; and > by &gt; (less than and greater than symbols)

The easiest way is to use a text area or input like stated above that is what most sites do.

<textarea><a href="index.html">me</a></textarea>

Sorry, i made a few mistakes in the last post. It works now:



<?php

$url = "http://" . $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];

echo "<form>";
echo "<input type='text' value='" . $url . "' />";
echo "</form>";

?>

cool - got it working. Thanks all.