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I’m having a really weird error. I’ve narrowed it down to two lines, either one of which causes this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /local/data/http…/core/core.functions.php(637) : eval()'d code on line 293

The two lines are:

&details;=<?php echo rawurlencode(trim(strip_tags("{description}")));?>
&location;=<?php echo rawurlencode("{address}");?>

what’s weird is that a very similar line doesn’t cause any problem:

&text;=<?php echo rawurlencode(”{title}”);?>

But wait, it gets even stranger. That code is not even supposed to be executed. It’s inside an if statement, and when the condition is false the error pops up. But when the condition is true and the code does get executed, there’s no error and everything works fine.

Any clue what’s happening ? To give you more context, I’m trying to add a “add to google calendar” button, and for this I need to encode the content of my fields. “description” is a text zone, and “address” is a text field, and I’ve removed formatting from both.

what kind of conditional?  if it’s a template {if} those don’t prevent execution of what is inside them… basically the entire output is formed and then the template engine decides which output gets seen or thrown away.

Yes, it was an {if}. Is there any way to prevent execution of something ? Or should I try to replace them with php “if"s ?

using php control statements is the best way to prevent execution of conditional php code.

I’d suggest assigning your EE custom fields to php variables first, and then testing them to see if they contain what you think they should.

OK, I’ll look into that. I’m pretty sure I know what the fields contain.. But in any case I want my code to work no matter what people enter in those fields. I’ve noticed that messing with the single and double quotes changes the php error. Maybe I need to escape quotes first before using rawurlencode ?

By the way, will the code also not be executed if I use php “if” statements but php is parsed on output ?