Zend form and Zend filter HtmlEntities

[carverotram]

I have a registration form with a few fields. One of them looks like this:\[code\] $first_name = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('first_name'); $first_name ->setLabel("First name") ->setRequired(true) ->addFilter(new Zend_Filter_HtmlEntities());\[/code\]I use the same form for editing user's details. The problem is with the Zend_filter_HtmlEntities. It does the job when I send the form's data to the database, it replaces html special chars with their alternatives.However, when I initialise this form and give it default values from a database record, Zend_filter_HtmlEntities filters those values again and I get some garbage in my input fields.For example, in first name input field, instead of \[code\]<b>Name, I get &lt;b&gt; Name\[/code\]Which means that when the form is rendered with default values, element filters are applied again and < because < Is there an elegant solution to this problem, apart from reformatting the data before it gets passed to the form?