html special characters & mysql

[eluser]kenjis[/eluser]
[quote author="NikosV" date="1268406200"]ok maybe i didn't myself clear... while i

Code:

function index($keyword='')
    {
            if(!empty($keyword))
        
        {    
            $is_resto_exist = $this->restaurant_model->is_resto_exist($keyword);        
                    
            
            if(isset($_SESSION['loggedin']) == 1)
            {            
                if($is_resto_exist)
                {
...

[/quote]

CI converts the string in $keyword to html entity.

How about below?

Code:

function index($keyword='')
    {
            $keyword = html_entity_decode($keyword);
            if(!empty($keyword))