带有HTML标签的文本样式

Question

I have a string saved in a database as <b>hello</b>

When I get the string from the database using a query, the text isn't bold (which should be caused by the <b> tags). Instead, it simply displays as 'hello'.

How can I apply the html tags to the text ?

<?php
$stmt = $con->prepare("SELECT * FROM posts");
$stmt->execute();
$text = $row['text'];
echo $text;
?>

I have tried using htmlentities as well as html_entity_decode , but the result is the same.

I'm unable to use html tags in the output ( $text = "<b>" . $row['text'] . "</b>"; ) as I'm getting multiple strings from the database, each with different html tags.

Answer 1

@Fred-ii- Hi Fred, just to let you know that I tried htmlspecialchars_decode(stripslashes($row['text'])) again and out of the blue, it strangely worked. – The Codese

As stated in comments:

htmlspecialchars_decode(stripslashes($row['text']))

is what should have been used.