Site builder Html segment replacing -> with &gt. Help!

[mixednut]

Hi everyone,

So I am using the provided web-builder and I am trying to add an HTML segment or block. I add the HTML block on to the page, and then I attempt at writing a php script in the html section. When I publish or preview the website it says:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '&'

and when I check where this error happens... it happens every time when i have a '->' in my code... for example:
I have the line
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);

which gets turned into:
if ($conn&gtconnect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn&gtconnect_error);

I have tested my code (and it works) by putting it directly in the file (using file manager) but the problem is that anytime I want to make a small aesthetic adjustment using the builder it will overwrite my code that I added using the manager...

Does anyone know of a solution?

 

[essellar]

Oddly enough, the Site Builder front end (client) is not designed to add PHP code to the site. Note that you're adding an HTML segment, not a PHP segment. It would say "PHP segment" if it allowed PHP.

 

[mixednut]

But if I'm not mistaken the section gets placed in a php file for that page anyways so it should still run. At least it did when I looked at the files after I added it

 

[mixednut]

Let me clarify that... When I build a site using the front end builder, publish it, then go to the file manager. The files for my website are: 1.php 2.php 3.php etc...

Now I directly edited 4.php to add the code to connect to a database and saved it. I ran the website and it worked fine.

I then went to the front end and changed something but after saving noticed that this overwrites the code I manually added. So I tried to use the HTML segment. I copied the exact same php code that I had entered manually and pasted it inside the HTML segment.

I saved it and then published it and got the error I mentioned at the beginning. But when I went to my file the code is in the exact same file (4.php) and is the exact same as if I had done it manually but it changes those > with &gt.

I get why it's doing it, because the thing thinks it's > greater than but you can see how this would prevent me from editing the aesthetics of the page with the front end and try to connect to a database.

Does anyone else use the front end and found out a way to connect to a database? That's all I really need to know. Rather than re adding the code every time I want to change something.