title: How to store html tags in php variable
body: <p>Ok so im making a login system and for some reason when typed like this im getting issues with it posting without an echo or print and the following script the displays itself help anyone.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?PHP $form = '
   &lt;form method="POST" action="login.php"&gt;
  &lt;table&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
          &lt;td&gt;Username:&lt;td&gt;
          &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="user"&gt;&lt;td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
          &lt;td&gt;Password:&lt;td&gt;
          &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="password" name="password"&gt;&lt;td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
          &lt;td&gt;&lt;td&gt;
          &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="submit" name="loginbtn" value="Login"&gt;&lt;td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
          &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="register.php"&gt;Register&lt;/a&gt;&lt;td&gt;
          &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="forgotpass.php"&gt;Forgoten Password&lt;/a&gt;&lt;td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
  &lt;/table&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;'
  ;
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>