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Preserve HTML tags and formatting into a MySQL database.
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html_safe_mysql.php
$str = "I 'am' a <strong>monster</strong>!";
// This will preserve the HTML tags (as well as the quotes) and make it safe to save into MySQL.
echo htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES);
// To display it with all its HTML glory, use html_entity_decode().
echo html_entity_decode($str);
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