Hi everyone,
I'm new to the forum and have been following this thread with interest. I had a similar issue with HTML tags appearing in my text, and the solutions mentioned here were very helpful. I found that using the strip_tags function, as suggested by Ray, worked perfectly for my case. I also appreciate the tip about adding 'false' to the end of the getColumnVal function to turn off automatic cross-site scripting protection. It's great to see such a supportive community sharing knowledge and solutions!