what's the correct way to store HTML in a database ?

[eluser]g_montel[/eluser]
Hello

I'm working on the back-office of my website, and the user can input some HTML on the news database.

The problem I have is, on my controller, if I use

Code:

$content = set_value('content')

The content is "htmlentities"-fied (i.e. <b> are transformed to & l t ; b & g t ; )

if I use

Code:

$this->input->post('content', TRUE)

It works OK.

But is it secure enough ? Should I use set_value ?

Thanks for your help

Geoffroy