Decoding mysql_real_escape_string() for outputting HTML

Question

I\'m trying to protect myself from sql injection and am using:

mysql_real_escape_string($string);

When posting HTML it looks something like

Answer 1

use the following function to remove slashes while showing on HTML page:

stripslashes();

eg. $html=stripslashes($html); OR $html=stripslashes($row["fieldname"]);