Calling a helper method from a view

[eluser]Alninio[/eluser]
Hi everyone,

I have been using CodeIgniter for a little while now and while I seem to be getting on OK with it I have recently run into something of a stumbling block which I am kinda hoping someone can help me with.

I have a query which returns a large number of results from my model and I am passing the results object to my view. My view then iterates through the results and builds the output display, a complex and interactive grid display.

I am using various values returned from the database to provide unique id's for some of the DOM elements so that I can reference and manipulate them. Unfortunately some of the data contains ' and " characters.

These are causing a problem for me and I want to escape them. I know there is a helper function called quotes_to_entities() that will perform the required string replace but I am having difficulty calling it from within my view.

I understand that this may not be best MVC practice but the complexity of splitting the construction of the grid across multiple controller/view iterations is enough to make me want to do it this way.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Many thanks.

Al.