Blade cutting off half of string

Question

I'm sending user details to a view with:

    $transformed = new User;
    $transformed->firstname = $user->firstname;
    $transformed->lastname = $user->lastname;
    $transformed->email = $user->email;

    return View::make('account.settings', ['user' => $transformed]);

if I do dd($transformed) before View::make then I see a complete email address, but the template cuts off everything from the "@" and before:

Should be: parent@parent.com
Is: parent.com

In the blade template, I have:

{{ $user->email }}

Why is it cutting off the start?

Here's the full view file:

@extends('account')

@section('content')

    <section class="site-section site-content account-section">
        <div class="container">
            <h1 class="account-header">Account Settings</h1>
            <div class="row">
                <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-6">

                    <form role="form" method="POST" action="/auth/register" class="form-horizontal" autocomplete="off">
                        <input type="hidden" name="_token" value="{{ csrf_token() }}">
                        <h3>Basic Details</h3>
                        <div class="form-group">
                            <div class="col-xs-12">
                                <label for="register-email">Email address</label>
                                <input id="register-email" type="text" name="email" class="form-control" autocomplete="off" value="{{ $user->email }}">
                            </div>
                        </div>
                        <div class="form-group">
                            <div class="col-xs-12">
                                <label for="register-firstname">First Name</label>
                                <input id="register-firstname" type="text" name="firstname" class="form-control" autocomplete="off" value="{{ $user->firstname }}">
                            </div>
                        </div>
                        <div class="form-group">
                            <div class="col-xs-12">
                                <label for="register-lastname">Last Name</label>
                                <input id="register-lastname" type="text" name="lastname" class="form-control" autocomplete="off" value="{{ $user->lastname }}">
                            </div>
                        </div>
                        <div class="form-group form-actions">
                            <div class="col-xs-12">
                                <button type="submit" class="btn btn-block btn-effect-ripple btn-lg btn-success"><i class="fa fa-plus"></i>&nbsp;&nbsp;Update Details</button>
                            </div>
                        </div>

                        <h3>
                        </h3>
                    </form>
                </div>
            </div>
            <!-- END row -->


        </div>
    </section>

@stop

Answer 1

It appears from the comments that this is a bug in Laravel itself as @parent, @extends etc are reserved words in the blade template engine.

A simple work around it to simply replace the @ symbol with it's HTML Entity equivalent (@). So, please try the following snippet:

{{ str_replace('@', '@', $user->email) }}

This can also be used in mailto protocol links, as so:

<a href="mailto:{{ str_replace('@', '&#64;', $email) }}">
    {{str_replace('@', '&#64;', $email)}}
</a>

For reference, here is a list of all HTML Entities (the list is far too long to add to this answer): http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm