escaping <> quotes in html

[kristijan]

hi,

in my save-to-db script i'm formatting links to html.

$Text = eregi_replace("(http://)([A-Za-z0-9~&=;:,\?%_#./-]*)", "<a href=\"\1\2\" target=\"_blank\">\1\2</a> ",$Text);

the code on the output page:
print "<p><font face='Arial' size='2' color='#000000'>" . nl2br(htmlentities(stripslashes(mysql_result($result, $i, "Text")))) . "</font></p>";

The Problem in the HTML Output:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vol.at&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.vol.at&lt;/a&gt;

What's wrong?
many thanks for help

greez,
kristijan

[Weedpacket]

htmlentities() is escaping your < > characters so that they don't get interpreted as starting or ending HTML tags (that's what it's for). If you do want them interpreted that way, don't use htmlentities().

[kristijan]

n.t