Funny how I didn't actually know before then that there was a specific PHP tag just like other tags like the code tag. I literally got to know after I quoted Theymos and saw he embedded his code in that particular tag so I just figured that's the reason it displayed as a php code.
Anyways though I'm not a big PHP coder I thought I would be able to figure out the bug and fix it that was how I eventually attempted and funnily I still didn't get it right. I was hoping you would hit up probably a fix in the thread but it seems I was wrong too.