When I use Zend DB (PDO Mysql Adapter), I'm getting back results that are not only escaped, but also HTML url-encoded.
I'm inserting the rows into the database as is, not escaped or html encoded. I'm curious to know:
I'd like to know if retrieving the results as escaped and html encoded is actually the proper way to do things?
Actually I think you just wonder why the strings are encoded.
AFAIK ZF does not does how you describe is does. So the "error" must be somewhere in your data-processing.
Additional Note: To improve your questions in the future, I would ask more straight forward and provide some code what you actually do otherwise your question is much of an invitation to guess around. With a concrete example it often works best.