Excerpt breaks `&`?

The CMS Questions
1

Hi,

I use a model to customize the “title” of a page. Using a “excerpt” turns a & into a &.
Is this an expected behavior?

model.php

public function title(): Kirby\Content\Field
{
    return $this->headline()->excerpt(50)->or('podcast');
}

headline:

Hirn & Heinrich - der Wissenspodcast des Deutschen Zentrums für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V. (DZNE)

Result:

Hirn & Heinrich - der Wissenspodcast des …
     ^^^^^

kirby-title
kirby-title777×309 16.5 KB

How to keep the & as it is?

Thanks and have a nice day.

ciao, Stefan

2

I have a similar problem with automatically generated titles in the page creation dialog und just posted an issue on Github:

Hope this can get fixed soon…

3

Are you using a Writer field for headline?

4

Hi Tobias,

not sure … you mean Writer | Kirby CMS ?
Not in my case, it’s a default “text” field

headline:
  type: text
  label: Titel / Überschrift

The problem is that the content that should be displayed as the “title” is escaped. See the github ticket linked above.

5

Yes, because the Writer field internally escapes when saving to the content file which leads to double escaping

6

Yeah, i see

My case is different, because I am not using “title” nor “slug” (which are escaped by default), but a default text field and an own page model for displaying the “title”

public function title(): Kirby\Content\Field
{
    // content file
    // Headline: Hirn & Heinrich - der Wissenspodcast des Deutschen Zentrums für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V. (DZNE) 

    // KO! Hirn & Heinrich …
    return $this->headline()->excerpt(50)->or('Hilfsangebot');
    
    // OK! Hirn & Heinrich …
    // return $this->headline()->or('Hilfsangebot');
}

So the output of $this->headline() is not escaped until adding →escape(). OK!

But when create an excerpt, the output is unexpectedly escaped.

As far i can see, its the method, that transform the content

mmh, what do you think? Is that a bug because it’s inconsistent?

  • $this->headline() unescaped output is expected: OK!
  • $this->headline()->excerpt(50) unescaped output is expected: KO! output is escaped

Should be (if escaped output is wanted):

  • $this->headline()->escape() escaped output is expected: OK!
  • $this->headline()->excerpt(50)→escape() escaped output is expected: Not implemented