Add HTML markup to $wpdb results in Wordpress

Question

I'm pulling some data with the WPDB class in Wordpress, however - the data is being retrieved as raw data, without any markup.

How can I automatically add this markup?

Answer 1

Got it :)

$text = apply___filters('the_content', $text);

See reference at wp-includes/formatting.php

Answer 2

Should be $text = apply_filters( 'the_content', $text ); — one underscore.