[RESOLVED] How to get html tags from a database ?

[MichaelHe]

Hi

I have a database where people themself put a profilname into.

I have just had a user who called his profil HisName<something>
When this was written in my profil name list it only said HisName. Probably because the browser thought that <something> was html coding.

So how can I get a name like that from the database without any mistakes by the browser.
Is there some special way I should get the data from the database, or ??

I looked in MyPhpAdmin and here his name was HisName<something> so it is put in the database OK, it's when I get the name in the browser it can't get it right.

best
Michael

[Piranha]

You should look into [man]mysql_real_escape_string [/man]for all database queries and [man]htmlspecialchars[/man] for displaying text.

[MichaelHe]

Thanks a lot...
The htmlspecialchars worked :o)