Auto decodeing htmlspecialhars on output.

The CI db library automatically converts my data into htmlspecialchars. I want it to be automatically decoded during output. Is it possible? I don't want to end up changing every $row->value to htmlspecialchars_decode($row->value).

The CI db library doesn't do what you're saying it does.

The CI db library doesn't do what you're saying it does.

It converts all my input and automatically converts it to html special chars if I user insert or update method of db library.
On https://www.codeigniter.com/userguide3/d...ilder.html, it says

It also allows for safer queries, since the values are escaped automatically by the system.

So if I use these methods and have a look at my db it is converting it to htmlspecialchars to escape properly.
What I want is somehow these htmlspecialchars should be converted back to normal text while retrieving back.

Thanks in advance

Sorry, for all the trouble. I was using set_value() to get the values. I did not know that it was converting input into htmlspecialchars. Now switching back to input->post() fixed things