Encoding and Decoding Question

[raku]

Hi,

 

As I described in a previous thread, users coming to one of my forms can have fields automatically filled out if their URL has the right variables in it. For example: http://example.com/form.php?text=awesometest

 

will fill out the text field with: awesometext

 

Sometimes though those URL variables are encoded, and if the text contains a quote ("), it is encoded to " so the URL looks like http://example.com/form.php?text=%26quot%3Bawesometext%26quot%3B

 

This displays in the input text field as "awesometext" and in the page source as "awesometext"

 

It only displayed correctly after I applied html_entity_decode on top of urldecode on the variable from the URL. I then apply htmlentities before outputting it. Once the user submits this form, another script adds the text in to the database. The field in the database shows exactly: "awesometext"

 

I was expecting it to show: "awesometext"

 

Although it is doing what I wanted, I was expecting to have to apply html_entity_decode again in the script that adds the text to the database. Is something decoding it along the way automatically? Should I apply html_entity_decode just to be safe?

 

Thanks so much!