Question

in my db I am saving the text with html

etc
how can I decode it so that it formats back the text on echo

so if I have this

$str = "testing <p>testing 2</p>";

it gives something like

testing

testing2

thanks

Answer 1

I’m going to go out on a limb and assume you want to see the HTML when displayed in an HTML document. If that is the case, you want

echo htmlspecialchars($str, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
// assuming your document is using an UTF-8 charset

See http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php