@bitlather

Check your database it shouldn't be storing >. It must be & lt ; now for your situation you can use following statement to get the output value without converting into entity.

{{ htmlentities($user->name) }}

a shortcut to htmlentities($user->name) is to use the triple curly which routes the echo through the e() function in Laravel. {{{ $user->name }}}

However, did you actually check the database directly? If you are just echoing it out to the browser, then the problem is it is looking at the < and showing the value that means. So you'd need to actually store < in order to get the string to not be interpreted. However, you need to watch things like editing and updating, since can rear its head later if you aren't careful.