Question

I am setting the value of a php variable to some html. i.e.

$_img = '<a href="some url">hehehehehe</a>';

The variable is then shown in html after a br tag. But it doesn’t execute the html in it. Rather it displays it like <a href="some url">hehehehehe</a>. So, is there any problem in my code! How can i do this thing?

Here is the code that displays that IN HTML,

 <?php if ($_item->getComment()): ?> <br/><?php echo $this->escapeHtml($_item->getComment(), array('b','br','strong','i','u')) ?> <?php endif; ?> 

Answer 1

From your comment….

Here is the code that displays that <?php if ($_item->getComment()):
?> <br/><?php echo $this->escapeHtml($_item->getComment(),
array('b','br','strong','i','u')) ?> <?php endif; ?>

As predicted by many people, it looks like you are encoding the value when you display it.

I don’t know what the $this->escapeHtml function is doing exactly, but it would appear to be doing an HTML Encoding on the string.

The result being that any tag, for example <a> will be sent to the browser as <a> which the browser will display as <a>. The browser will not see it as a tag, and will therefore not treat it as one.

So the simple answer is: don’t encode the HTML…

<?php echo $_item->getComment(); ?>