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I have a title that has quotes in it - so when I need to conditional around it, I get an EE error.

The title is

lein: “Pictures at an Election or How to get Votes in Japan”. Ein Dokumentarfilm von Axel Klein zu Wahlkampftechniken in Japan.

The code which triggers the problem:

<input type="hidden" name="event_name" value='{if event_title_{lc}}{event_title_{lc}}{if:else}{event_title_de}{/if}' />

If I put single quotes around the conditional variable:

<input type="hidden" name="event_name" value='{if 'event_title_{lc}'}{event_title_{lc}}{if:else}{event_title_de}{/if}' />

then we’re okay BUT this assumes the quotes in the title are double quotes.  Is there a universal solution allowing for both single and double quotes in an entry field that may need to be in a conditional?

I’d about swear single quotes are encoded in the title field.  That said- I’m not entirely sure what’s up in that code.  What’s lc and where is it coming from?

cheers for the prompt reply.

“lc” are global variables I use for localization / multilingual support.  For example, Japanese users would get the value inside event_title_jp, German users would get the value inside event_title_de.  Let’s me use one template and pull out the correct field based on language code.  It’s documented in the wiki on multilingual sites.

So, single quotes I don’t have to worry about then ... what about the double quote issue then? 😊

Hi, Matt—

Did you still need help with this?  If you do, I may need to move this up to How To to explore a solution.  You may need a plugin to do some cleanup to allow for all quote types.

In short, I still need help with this.

Quotes, etc. are handled nicely if the content formatting method is set to XHTML.  “None” and “<br>” don’t encode quotes, etc.

It would be nice if there was a formatting method to only encode entities.  Basically, if there was a formatting option like “XHTML” but *not* wrap everything in tags, then I believe the above issue would be resolved.

Ouch- you got forgotten there for far too long.  Feel free to bump if we miss you like that again.

Hm- I am going to shift to ‘How to’- but sounds like you want default formatting to be xhtml lite- which is basicaly xhtml w/out the p tags.  Wonder if xhtml typography allows you to select ‘light’ as an option for formatting type.  Might try that.

thanks for the plugin link - that would be helpful in some cases.

however, the original issue arose when referencing the field-data in an EE conditional.  since you can’t embed EE tags inside EE conditionals, the only way i can see getting around this problem is if an XHTML Typography Light were an option in the Formatting Option drop-down associated with each field on a Publish tab.  Is it easy to add new formatting options in this area?