Force text instead of HTML

[jerry]

I'm having the following problem: I have a page where a user inserts text inside a textarea and then I output the contents of that textarea in another page (php).If the user decides to insert, for example input type="text" name="_name" (can't use < and > or the text won't show, which is exactly my problem) then when showing the output I will have a textbox shown. I want to force text only to appear. Thank you.