如何在PHP中“撤消”这个小函数？

Question

I am using this to adapt my text which then gets inserted into a mysql db:

$ad_text=nl2br(wordwrap($_POST['annonsera_text'], 60, "
", true));

When users wish to change their posting, they click a link on my page, and a form opens. In this form, the textarea where I fetch the info from mysql, I am displaying the text again. Only problem is, the text itself contains '<br>' tags. That is, it shows up EXACTLY as it looks in the mysql table field.

How can I undo the function above so that the <br> tags are removed again? Thanks

Answer 1

Why not insert your clean unmodified text into the database, then html-ify it only when displaying?