title: CKEditor is escaping html elements
body: <p>I am using CKEditor to insert text into a MySQL database. I have noticed that my installed CKEditor is escaping all HTML elements when the data reaches the database.</p>
  
  <p>Therefore the following is what I am getting in the database after I have inserted the text with CKEditor:</p>
  
  <pre><code>'&amp;' (ampersand) becomes '&amp;amp;'
  
  '"' (double quote) becomes '&amp;quot;
  
  "'" (single quote) becomes '&amp;#039;
  
  '&lt;' (less than) becomes '&amp;lt;' 
  
  '&gt;' (greater than) becomes '&amp;gt;' 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would rather disable the CKEditor HTML escaping completely, and rely on my PHP script to handle the HTML escaping using PHP's <code>htmlspecialchars</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Another good reason for me to disable CKEditor's HTML escaping ability is that I want to preserve the written content in the MySQL database. In other words I want to keep the single quotes and double quotes in the database, and then I want to have PHP sanitise the HTML elements with <code>htmlspecialchars</code> when I print the database data to page using MySQL select statement.</p>
  
  <p>Can anybody tell me how to disable html escaping within CKeditor? Your input or any advice on the above would be much appreciated.</p>