Title field and SmartyPants

[Marty Walker]

Hi,

Is it possible to run a field in a template through one of the text formatters? I have title like this: This is 'Closed' - which I would like to have curly quotes. If I add SmartPants to the title field in the admin there's no effect.

But if I include a PHP version of SmartyPant (http://michelf.ca/projects/php-smartypants/), and have setOutputFormatting to false I can do this.

<?php
	$page->of(false);
	$my_text = SmartyPants($page->title);
	echo "<p>" . $my_text . "</p>";
?>

Just wondering if there's a 'PW' way to do it.

Regards

Marty

[ryan]

Textformatters are intended for front-end rather than back-end. So you won't see the results of a Textformatter in the admin side. However, if you apply the SmartyPants Textformatter to any text field (Fields > edit field > Details > Text formatters), you should see the results on the front-end.