prep_for_form vs htmlentities

[eluser]veliscorin[/eluser]
Thanks for the reply guys!
Thats the beauty of CI, handles all the sanitizing of the input to the database...

All along i thought the validation rule "prep_for_form" would have converted it into the html entities instead of the literally "&<>" etc chars..

So now, am i right to say that once u do a prep_for_form validation rule, when u display out the information in your views, u still have to run a form_prep() ? (If u didnt use any of the form helpers to generate the html that is)