Printing textarea into a textarea

I have a database tablet with a row which contains some html e.g.<textarea id="input_51" class="form-textarea" name="q51_otherItems" cols="40" rows="6"></textarea>

When i try and print this into a text area it is having problems by closing the text area that i am printing this into because i am pasting a textarea into a textarea. Have you ever had this before and if so how did you get over it?

The purpose is i have a CMS which allows me to put in text and forms etc onto a page using the nicedit wzyiwig but this is causing a problem.

Cheers,
Adam

 

use hmtlentities function

http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

Code (markup):

An example from php documentation:

<?php
 $str = "A 'quote' is <b>bold</b>";

// Outputs: A 'quote' is &lt;b&gt;bold&lt;/b&gt;
echo htmlentities($str);
?>

PHP: