image tags... Why is this happening?

[Lord_Yggdrasill]

Well my image tags do work fine almost all the time, but this time I am encountering a really weird issue. I used the below code on a page:

<img src='{$avatar}'> 

And the avatar is not displayed, instead it showed '> on the screen. I tried to use var_dump() on the variable $avatar, it appeared normally. I was wondering though, in what circumstances will an image tag behave abnormally? Please lemme know.

[laserlight]

Maybe $avatar contains a single quote. You should be using htmlentities() with ENT_QUOTES, methinks.

[Lord_Yggdrasill]

umm interesting, thats a possibility. I will see what I can do with it. And if you dont mind answering, what is ENT_QUOTES? Is it a parameter to pass in the function htmlentities()?

[laserlight]

Yes. You can read the PHP manual on [man]htmlentities/man for more information.

[bradgrafelman]

Also note that if that doesn't solve your issue, you might want to show us what the actual output is rather than letting us guess (though I suspect laserlight guessed correctly).

[Lord_Yggdrasill]

Thanks everyone, I have it resolved already. This is what $avatar is defined:

$avatar = $user->getAvatar();

Reality is, well, the method User::getAvatar() already returns an image url enclosed in html image tag. What I've been doing was to add a duplicate image tag on it, which resulted in a weird glitch that I had no idea how to fix for the last two days. Guess I was just being way too careless, lol.