title: Why is my PHP in articles being interpreted literally as a string instead of as PHP?
body: <p>I am trying to find a way to write pure PHP in my articles with Joomla (currently using 1.5). The closest I got so far was to use a plugin called <strong>Sourcerer</strong> (<a href="http://www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/use-javascript-or-php-in-a-joomla-article/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">see link</a>)</p>
  <p>The issue is that the PHP code is actually being rendered as HTML. When I write the below code via the Sourcerer editor:</p>
  <pre><code>&lt;?php echo &quot;Hello world&quot;; ?&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  <p>This is what is being written to the article:</p>
  <pre><code>&lt;span&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;?php echo &quot;Hello world&quot;; ?&lt;span&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  </code></pre>
  <p>I am afraid that at some point this is going to break my PHP if I come up with more complex code. Also this makes the code hardly readable. Finally the issue with Sourcerer is that you can only insert new code, you can't edit what you previously added.</p>
  <p><strong>Does anybody know a way to write pure PHP into articles?</strong></p>
  <p>I would like to insist on the fact that it has to be within articles. I already found a way to do it in modules or components, for instance with <a href="http://edo.webmaster.am/jumi/1.5-usage" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Jumi</a>.</p>