How can the use of [php][/php] tags in PHP files lead to formatting issues on a forum page?

Using [php][/php] tags in PHP files on a forum page can lead to formatting issues because the forum software may not recognize these tags as valid PHP code and may display them as plain text instead. To solve this issue, you can use the PHP `eval()` function to execute the code within the [php][/php] tags. 

// Example fix for using [php][/php] tags on a forum page
$content = "[php]echo 'Hello, World!';[/php]";
$pattern = '/\[php\](.*?)\[\/php\]/s';
preg_match_all($pattern, $content, $matches);

foreach ($matches[1] as $match) {
    ob_start();
    eval($match);
    $output = ob_get_clean();
    $content = str_replace("[php]$match[/php]", $output, $content);
}

echo $content;

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