Don't display HTML tags in textbox

[dakey]

Hello, i have a textbox which i save the entered info into MySQL, but because i want to display this on a webpage i also save the HTML tags into the MySQL like so:

$product_description = htmlentities($_POST['product_description'], ENT_QUOTES);
$product_description = nl2br($product_description);
// write $product_description to database

This all works fine when the datadata is then retrieved and displayed on a web page. The problem occurs tho when i display this in a textbox so the user can edit thier description as it displays the HTML tags as well instead of redering them?

eg - this is what is displayed in the database driven textbox
dumme text<br /><br />
dumme text<br /><br />
<br /><br />
dumme text

Is there a way of not displaying the tags and rendering in a textbox as if it was HTML code.

Thanks

[thorpe]

[man]strip_tags/man.

edit: Sorry, missed half your post. There should be a few examples of a reverse of nl2br() in the [man]nl2br[/man] user notes.

[laserlight]

It may be better to store without using nl2br(), and then use nl2br() as necessary when printing. The download is that this means for processing in the long run.