Adding HTML tags to text stored in MySQL for proper display on webpage

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                <h4> Re: New message indicators</h4>
                <p>This could be done on a session basis with JavaScript. It would be very similar to how it works now but with a slight change.</p>
                <p>In version 1.1.5, the unread image is sent to the browser like this...<br /><img src="img/Oxygen_new.png" width="16" height="16" alt=""></p>
                <p>But, when Pun prints these img tags, it could add the topic id as an attribute like this...<br /><img src="img/Oxygen_new.png" width="16" height="16" alt="" <strong>id="Topic5281"</strong>><br /><em>(PunBB would have to add "Topic" or "Forum" because ID's can't start with numbers)</em></p>
                <p>A JavaScript could then look for these, and note when a topic or all of the topics in a forum have been visited this session. If a topic was visited, the img with the matching id attribute could be set to <em>theImgTag.style.display='none'</em> with the JavaScript.</p>
                <p>This would turn off the new-message images for the topics and forums as you read them. And when you close the browser, the browser would automatically clear the session cookie.</p>
                <p><em>I know PunBB 1.2 is in feature freeze right now. So just consider this post to be purely academic for now.</em></p>
                <p class="lastedit">Last edited by ShawnBrown (09-12-2004 15:07:31)</p>
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<p><?php 
$full_copy = $row[full_copy];
$full_copy = nl2br($full_copy);
$full_copy = preg_replace('#<br />\s*?<br />(?!\s*<br />)#i', "</p>\n<p>", $full_copy);
echo $full_copy;
 ?></p>