Need help with insert and htmlspecialchars

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It looks like I have found the solution.

For anyone who comes across this problem too, it was due to having global_xss_filtering set to true. I have set this to false and things work as expected.

Shouldn't htmlspecialchars only be applied when outputting the data to a web page and other ways used to sanitize user inputs?