Smarty won't display strings with double quotes in input fields

[dlite922]

Hey guys, this is so weird, i don't know what else to do. Hopefully one of you is a Smarty guru as this is difficult to search (google and smarty forum) and if you aren't i'll post answer here, i'm sure one of you will run into it.

I have an array of object, one of those objects has an attribute that is a string (description), This description does not appear in an INPUT text field ONLY, but appears to print inside div tags just fine.

Just before the display, i did a die print, here's that output:

Array
(
    [0] => ViolationVO Object
        (
            [id] => 299
            [caseID] => -1
            [citationID] => -1
            [noteID] => -1
            [amendedFromID] => -1
            [amendedToID] => -1
            [dispositionCode] => 
            [commonCode] => 
            [violationCode] => 004
            [description] => "THIS IS A TEST NUMBER 2"
            [points] => 4
            [amount] => 200.00
            [lastUpdate] => 
            [byUser] => 
        )
)
 
 

There's only one object in this array, but it doesn't matter, if i have 10 all the ones with double quotes in the description fail to appear. ONLY the description field does not display, all other attributes do.

Here's my smarty (html) display.

[PHP]{foreach from=$caseEditPage->getViolationVOList() item=violationVO}
<tr>
<td><input type="hidden" name="violationID[]" id="vID{$count}" value="{$violationVO->getID()}" />
<input type="text" class="field4" name="violationCode[]" id="vCode{$count}" value="{$violationVO->getViolationCode()}" onblur="organizeViolationTable();getDescriptionAnd Point(this, {$count});" /></td>
<td><input type="text" class="field6" name="violationDescription[]" id="vDesc{$count}" value="{$violationVO->getDescription()}" /></td>
<td><input type="text" class="field3 alignRight" name="violationPoints[]" id="vPoints{$count}" value="{$violationVO->getPoints()}" /></td>
<td><input type="text" class="field3 alignRight" name="violationAmount[]" id="vAmount{$count++}" value="$ {$violationVO->getAmount()|number_format}" onblur="convertToCurrency(this.id)" /></td>
</tr>
{/foreach}



[/PHP]

The problem is on the 5th line.

This same foreach is done else where on the page, but not in to a text box and it appears fine.

[dlite922]

SOLVED:

It's kind of stupid but hey, what are you gonna do:

 
 
{$variableWithQ|escape}
 
 

don't understand why it won't just display it (or nothing comes to my mind at this moment, so i'll continue to call it stupid)

Peace,


DM

[satas]

It is not stupud. Consider following examples:
[PHP]<?php
$ttt = "\"some text\"";
?>
<input type="text" value="<?php print $ttt;?>" />[/PHP]
We can see nothing in the input field in the browser (but not in the source).
And this:

[PHP]<?php
$ttt = "\"some text\"";
?>
<input type="text" value="<?php print htmlspecialchars($ttt);?>" />[/PHP]
All goes fine.