<?PHP getting changed into <!--?PHP

Question

When I post a PHP code snippet into a wordpress post it will convert

<?PHP into <!--?PHP

To avoid this I must replace <?PHP with <?PHP

I am asking if there is a setting or easy method to avoid this? If not I am thinking of maybe writing a PHP function that will search the content filed and replace <?PHP with <?PHP

Any ideas

Answer 1

PHP is filtered out of the WordPress post editor as a security feature. There are some plugins that let you put them in, but I think they're a pretty bad idea, so I won't even link to them.

If you need PHP on a page, you should be putting that code in a template file or in functions.php or a plugin file that hooks to a page you want to modify.

Answer 2

Here is my only idea so far

function strip_php($content) {
    return str_ireplace("<?PHP", "&lt;?PHP", $content  );
}
add_filter('content_save_pre','strip_php');