category variable

[seymourjames +]

Having a problem getting the category variable to not have spaces either side of it when displayed or assigned. This goes in the title tag and it is coming out something like <title> xxxxxx </title> and not <title>xxxxxx</title>

Here is the code I am using from the forum.

{foreach name=outer item=contact from=$breadcrumb}
{foreach item=item from=$contact}
{assign var=category value=$item|strip_tags}
{/foreach}
{/foreach}

Any ideas?

[Lhotch +]

use "strip".

http://smarty.net/manual/en/language.modifier.strip.php

[seymourjames +]

Thanks Larry - I will try that. Just saw it in the plugins and was wondering.

[seymourjames +]

So I tried strip but it did not work

{foreach name=outer item=contact from=$breadcrumb}
{foreach item=item from=$contact}
{assign var=category value=$item|strip_tags}
{/foreach}
{/foreach}
{assign var=pagetitle value=$category|strip}


Category gets stripped of tags but then I need to strip off the remaining spaces around it so $pagetitle ends up clean.

[Eric Barnes +]

How about this:
{assign var=pagetitle value=$category|trim}

[seymourjames +]

This works well. Thanks