[eluser]chobo[/eluser]
In the documentation it says you can use functions to prepare data when you set the validation rules like: trim, htmlspecialchar, etc... I wasn't sure if I could somehow access those values because if I prepare the values in the validation rules and then after call post to retrieve them I don't see how those values will still be prepared.
Maybe an example will explain this better.
The following does a validation check and preps the data using htmlspecialchars
Code:
// validate and prep data
$rules['name'] = "required|htmlspecialchar";
If I then call post on the field to retrieve it
Code:
$this->input->post('name');
Will it have the htmlspecialchars applied to it? If not, how would I get the version that does? I'm a little confused by the documentation as it uses the word "prep", so I'm assuming I can access the prepped version of the data.
