How to prevent my php comment box from outputing html codes...?

How to prevent my php comment box from outputing html codes and turning urls to a hyperlink ? my comment box takes data from database.

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  1. After you retrieve the data from the database, filter it through the strip_tags function. This will remove any and all HTML and PHP tags from a string, except the tags you want to keep. http://us3.php.net/strip_tags
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