Custom Variable Containing HTML displays Tags instead

[evilthoutz]

I have a custom page I have created and im using a while statement to list something from the database.


My code:

$thehash = ''; 
$result = $vbulletin->db ->query_read("SELECT DISTINCT hash FROM hashdb"); 
$count = mysql_num_rows($result);
while($row = $vbulletin->db->fetch_array($result)) 
 {
$thehash .= ("<td class='cal'>" . $row['hash'] . "</td>");
 }

For some reason it echo's out the HTML tags instead of actually being displayed as HTML. My other forum is using this same code but the HTML code doesn't show and does work??

Does anyone know of a way to make the HTML show up on my custom page using this while statement?

Other info:

vBulletin 4.2.0
I tried disabling all plugins to see if that was an issue, no go.

--------------- Added [DATE]1339033654[/DATE] at [TIME]1339033654[/TIME] ---------------

never mind found my mistake... I was using {vb:var} instead of {vb:raw}