Help ... please answer this quetion...for start up php programmer..

hi friends i want explain my problem with a example..
In my data base have a text like <a href="http:www.example.com">text</a> ..when i display this data to my web page using echo there showing a link only " text " . i want show that original text no as link..how i do this ...how i ca avoid html tag when i echo text ..
(sorry for bad english ..

 

You should not have a problem with display data via "echo".
Could you share piece of your code? How do you get data from database?

 

displaying correct .. i explaining again...

in data base :
<a href="http:www.example.com">text</a>

i am displaying this data to my html page

result:

I need result like:

..
not show as link..

understand?

 

echo htmlentitites($text);

PHP:

http://www.php.net/htmlentities