Display Text(HTML) Saved In Database using CkEditor

Question

I have used CKEDITOR for saving some text in mysql database, it is saved in format like I have shown below

<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
    <span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Buy 2 Buffet and Get 1 Free (Mon-Wed-Thu-Fri-Sat-Sun)</span></span><br />
    <span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Lunch buffet-</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Rs.399</strong><br />
    Dinner Buffet-</span></span><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Rs.499</span></strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

For Displaying it I have used php code like

echo htmlspecialchars_decode(stripslashes($main_row['meta_value']))

But it is showing output like

<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">  
<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Buy 2 Buffet and Get 1 Free (Mon-Wed-Thu-Fri-Sat-Sun)</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Lunch buffet-</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Rs.399</strong><br /> Dinner Buffet-</span></span>

I want to display this data as text, please help me out.

Answer 1

Just try to use

echo htmlspecialchars_decode($text);

And it will work .

Answer 2

try this:

echo htmlspecialchars_decode($main_row['meta_value'])

and let me know what is the result..

Answer 3

Use html_entity_decode it should work!

For example, assuming your text is stored in a variable called $text
$text = html_entity_decode($text);