htmlentities

hi! i've got the following problem and hope one of you is able to help me solving that: i've got a system in php that writes data (e.g. variable-name = $data) to a mysql database. there are two more scripts: one for displaying the data and one for writing the data into a formular. the displaying-script includes a link to the formular-script which submits the values for $data. i use the command 'htmlentities' to express the value (there is an html-tag like <img src="http:...">) correctly. when the formular-script is executed via this link i get a wrong result: <img src=\"....\"> there are these backslashes... what 2 do?? thX, George