How to display special &xxx; characters

[Anon]

I have some text in a database and within the text are entries such as & nbsp; (note, I've left a space to make sure it displays here). I want to read the data and display it withing a <textarea> form field for editing, but I want the & nbsp; to be displayed just like that and not converted to a space. Same goes for any special character notation. The text field contains a html template.

Thanks,
Roger

[khaine]

Your could use a replace statment. for example

<?

$string="Lots of text &nbsp;"

$string2=strstr("&amp;", "&", $string);

echo "<TEXTAREA>$string2;</TEXTAREA>";

?>

Mark.