I find this very strange, must be something I'm doing wrong, but still... I'm working on a page using PHP and TPL files. In my TPL file, there's a place in the footer for some extra lines if needed.

For instance, formchecking with Javascript.

so in PHP I did this:

$foot = "<script type=\"text/javascript\">if(document.getElementById){loadEvents();}</script>";

the $foot variable is then parsed and the result in HTML is this:

<script type="text/javascript">if(document.getElementById)</script>

So {loadEvents();} went missing.

Does anybody see what I'm missing here... I'm seriously not finding it. Did I forget to escape a character or something?

I find this very strange, must be something I'm doing wrong, but still... I'm working on a page using PHP and TPL files. In my TPL file, there's a place in the footer for some extra lines if needed.

For instance, formchecking with Javascript.

so in PHP I did this:

$foot = "<script type=\"text/javascript\">if(document.getElementById){loadEvents();}</script>";

the $foot variable is then parsed and the result in HTML is this:

<script type="text/javascript">if(document.getElementById)</script>

So {loadEvents();} went missing.

Does anybody see what I'm missing here... I'm seriously not finding it. Did I forget to escape a character or something?

• php
• javascript
• smarty
• template-engine

• by TPL files do you mean Smarty? How is the $foot getting into the tpl file? – Tom Haigh Commented Dec 1, 2008 at 15:05
• Maybe telling people that you use a template engine instead of letting them guess would have been a nice thing to do. – Tomalak Commented Dec 1, 2008 at 15:13

4 Answers 4

Obviously the template engine you are using eats away the part in curly braces.

Try something like:

$foot = "{literal}<script type=\"text/javascript\">if(document.getElementById){loadEvents();}</script>{/literal}";

It looks like you're using a template engine like Smarty, which tries to parse anything it finds within braces.

This page from the smarty documentation explains how to make smarty ignore sections it would otherwise parse.

I believe with {} that PHP is expecting a variable within them. I haven't tested this, but try using single quote instead of double-quotes.

If you are using smarty you could use the {literal}.

literal