[SOLVED] htmlentities except for certain html tags

[ShoeLace1291]

I have a script that retrieves a database record that's created by a user.  In that database record are bbcodes like [p].  My problem is that the records are for tutorials, so I need it to display the HTML as raw text, therefore I have to use htmlentities and even though I use str_replace to replace the bb tags, it still displays the <p> tags(previously [p]) as html.  I need the <p> tags to be translated into html so my layout works correctly.  Is there anyway to do this?

 

$tutContent=$fetch["tutorialContent"];

$bbcode = array('[p]', '[/p]', '[example]', '[/example]');

$replacewith = array('<p>', '</p>', "<div id='example'>", '</div>');

 

$tutContent = htmlentities(str_replace($bbcode,$replacewith,$tutContent));

[Barand]

Call htmlentities() before converting [p] to < p >

[ShoeLace1291]

Thanks.  Seems so simple now... haha.