I have a members name in one database...
I want to retrieve some data from another database and display it in
an HTML textarea or table with the username from the other database.
I have the following variables (I can do the sql stuff to get the
records)
 (database 1) <?php echo $row_membrdb['username']; ?> = John
 (database 2) <?php echo $row_addata['firstad']; ?> = <a href="http://
www.domain.com/<?php echo $row_membrdb['username']; ?>/">http://
www.domain.com/<?php echo $row_membrdb['username']; ?>/</a>

If I do this in my HTML it works as desired as far as how it's
displayed
<textarea>
Go to  the following url for more information
<a href="http://www.domain.com/<?php echo $row_membrdb['username']; ?

Thank you
</textarea>
would display correctly in a text box.

Example 1.1
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Go to  the following url for more information
http://www.domain.com/john/
Thank you
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I want to achieve the same result is as follows

<textarea>
<?php echo $row_addata['firstad']; ?>
</textarea>

I want it to  display like Example 1.1
http://www.domain.com/john/
but I get this in the text area.
Example 1.2
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Go to  the following url for more information
<a href="http://www.domain.com/<?php echo $row_membrdb['username']; ?

Thank you
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Any idea how to get 1.2 to look like 1.1?