LG Tiny MCE: Quotes in field data causing parse error in conditionals

Hi, I have several fields running tiny mce (LG Tiny MCE) where clients will be able to paste in rich text or html content. The problem I’m having is when the wysiwyg data contains double and single quotes (and perhaps other entities as well) - my conditionals in the template are throwing a parse error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /var/www/vhosts/my-site/httpdocs/my-system-folder/core/core.functions.php(637) : eval()'d code on line 103

I have tried both of the following conditional formats with no joy:

{if field_name} and {if field_name != ""}

I’ve also tried php conditionals with addslashes and htmlentities but they still fail with the same eval error above.

I guess what I would like to know is,

1. what is the most elegant way to test for the existence of a field that contains html
2. more generally, is there a way to get EE to throw more meaningful php errors so that I can figure out where I’m going wrong on that front.

Thanks!

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