max and htmlconv error

Hi,
It appears as
[blk1.recname;max=40;htmlconv=look]
and
[blk1.recname; htmlconv=look;max=40]
behave different (the first one doesn't make html conversion)

An error?

Hi Mario,

I don't have this behavior.

Did you check that the space before the htmlconv=look has not a break line in you template ?

Maybe I found the thing:

it appear as max worked before htmlconv so an html entity (as 'à') at the end of the string is truncated and then not parsed by htmlconv.

I'm suprised because the max truncate is proceed before the Html conversion.

And I can also say that the order of parameters doesn't matter for TBS.

I think just because max truncate works before the conversion the html entity may been truncated

Ho, yes you're right. That's possible if the data contains a Html special cher before the merge.

But the order of the parameters must change nothing.

It's ok for the order of parameter, but, how can I solve the problem?
maybe an onformat call to an external function to make the conversion?

It depens on what can contain the data "recname".
Is it always an Html string, or only sometimes ?

This times it's always an html string.

If you have PHP>=4.3 then I suggest that you use a 'onformat' function to perfom the length limitation.

You can use html_entity_decode() to convert Html to Normal text, then make the limitation, and then convert the string back to html.

thanks, I will do that.