The case of the missing dollar sign

Attention all PHP gurus.  This is a really strange bug.  You gotta read this ticket.  Boonex staff was not able to duplicate this bug on demozzz.com/dolphin7b, nor was I.  Maybe I'm just lucky, but I have this same bug on 2 seperate test installations... 2 different servers... 2 different hosting companies.   This problem is site wide.   When I type a price such as $123  .... anywhere... the dollar sign and the 2 numeric characters immediately following the $ are not displayed.  This occurs in event descriptions, blog post, comments... absolutely everywhere.  The kicker is... the data is stored correctly in the database.

http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/ticket/1046

It only happens when numeric characters immediately follow the dollar sign.. no problem with alpha characters.

Examples:

$1234 is displayed as 34

$abcd is displayed as $abcd

$ 1234 is displayed as $ 1234  (space after dollar sign)

This is very strange...   Can anybody else verify this?

hi,

I haven't problem in events, but, if I send to me a letter with object $1234 and with text $1234, when the alert mail come to my real address, object are $1234 but, text are 34.

Looks like the same problem luca.

I was just looking at the advanced settings.  Is there any chance your "currency sign" under the variables section got screwed up?  Mine says: $

The currency symbol that is used by the system is not related to this problem.

The problem is how php displays the data.  It looks like php is trying to treat $1234 (example) as a variable, but variables cannot beging with a numeric character, so php doesn't display it at all. 

Boonex needs to figure out why php is trying to treat $1234 as a variable within a textarea.

This is driving me nuts.  Surely other people have this problem.

Gee.  I just love talking to myself.

We all have the same problem, I think.