Trying to echo tags is resulting in a text string

[FMDuck]

I'm trying to echo a an href tag along with some images and the result I'm getting is simply a string of text. I'm not sure of how or why the result isn't being interpreted properly. Leaving out the FM API and declaration portions, here's what DOES work:

[center]

        

            '>

(closing php tag isn't showing up in the code here on FMForums)



Here's the code I would like to have so I can simply copy the above into one field in FM...

<?php echo $imageStringA; ?> [/center]

But again, this results in the string being echoed back. I've tried single-quotes, escaped double-quotes, the substitute function, etc. but no luck.

Any advice would be a great help.

Thanks.

[Baloo]

If I understand your problem correctly, the first thing that comes to mind is that htmlentities() is getting run on the string at some point in the process.

$str = "A 'quote' is [b]bold[/b]";

echo htmlentities($str);

/* Outputs: A 'quote' is <b>bold</b>*/

check the HTML source (View->Page Source in firefox ) to confirm.

oh yeah, if that is the case and removing it will break something else you can always use html_entity_decode() to reverse it

Edited March 17, 2009 by Guest

[FMDuck]

Thanks Baloo,

I've seen the html_entity_decode() used a lot but never bothered to look it up.

That did the trick.