How to render html tags from mysql database in PHP?

Question

I am storing html tags like <ul><li>....</li></ul>, etc in the table. I want to retrieve these values as html content. When I retrieve this data I want to show it as HTML content, that is, it should show bullets instead of <ul><li>....</li></ul>.

Code which I am trying:

<?php echo stripslashes($row3['description'])?>

I have even tried htmlentities(), html_entity_decode() but, none have worked.

Answer 1

You can Use htmlspecialchars_decode function as below :

echo htmlspecialchars_decode(stripslashes($row3['description'])); 

Instead of

 echo stripslashes($row3['description']);

You can know more about function here : http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars-decode.php

Answer 2

for laravel users just do this

{!! $my_db_ish['my_row'] !!}

instead of

{{ $my_db_ish['my_row'] }}

Answer 3

Use htmlspecialchars_decode.

$str = "<ul><li></li></ul>";

echo htmlspecialchars_decode($str);

Hope it will help you :)