When I generate the src of an img tag, using php, it strips the forward slash at the end of the tag. Anyone come across this before?

Question

If I have the path to an image stored in $thumbPath and I put that as the img tag's src it strips the end "/" from the tag. Does anyone have any ideas about this?

<img src="<?php echo $thumbPath; ?>" /> 
// <img src="path/to/file/foo.jpg"> 

Thanks

Answer 1

It seems very unlikely that this is the location of the problem. "echo" is not semantically aware. It's much more likely that the error exists in whatever code is generating $thumbPath.

Answer 2

It will not strip it. As the / is outside the scope of the code you have provided us with. The source of the problem is something else, without any more info I can't help you.

Answer 3

Here's a test to show that Wrikken et al. are correct:

<?php
ob_start();
$thumbPath = 'path/to/file/foo.jpg';
?>

<img src="<?php echo $thumbPath; ?>" /> 

<?php
echo htmlspecialchars(ob_get_clean());

// Output:
// Browser: <img src="path/to/file/foo.jpg" />
// CLI: &lt;img src=&quot;path/to/file/foo.jpg&quot; /&gt;