CKEditor displaying HTML tags in editor

Question

I am using a CKEditor and saving content to a MySQL database. When trying to edit the content again in the editor, I am getting HTML tags displayed as text, for example:

Answer 1

For people who might have the same issue with CodeIgniter/CKEditor:

The way to resolve this issue and still use the CodeIgniter set_value() method is the following:

$ck_editor->editor("sec1_content", set_value('sec1_content', html_entity_decode($default_value)), $config);

Do this:

$ck_editor->editor("sec1_content", html_entity_decode(set_value('sec1_content', $default_value)), $config);

Put html_entity_decode around set_value. The reason for this is obviously because the set_value method might not use the $default_value parameter but return the posted data instead.

Thank you coramba for making me realize my mistake.