diff --git a/etemplate/js/et2_core_phpExpressionCompiler.js b/etemplate/js/et2_core_phpExpressionCompiler.js
index c7bed8df0a..97ff223fb2 100644
--- a/etemplate/js/et2_core_phpExpressionCompiler.js
+++ b/etemplate/js/et2_core_phpExpressionCompiler.js
@@ -352,8 +352,8 @@
 
 			if (typeof part == "string")
 			{
-				// Escape all "'" chars and add the string to the parts array
-				parts.push("'" + part.replace(/'/g, "\\'") + "'");
+				// Escape all "'" and "\" chars and add the string to the parts array
+				parts.push("'" + part.replace(/'/g, "\\'").replace(/\\/g, "\\\\") + "'");
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -361,6 +361,11 @@
 			}
 		}
 
+		if (parts.length == 0)
+		{
+			parts.push('""');
+		}
+
 		return parts.join(" + ");
 	}
 
@@ -399,7 +404,7 @@
 		var js = _php_compileJSCode(_vars, syntaxTree);
 
 		// Log the successfull compiling
-		et2_debug("log", "Compiled PHP '" + _expr + "' --> '" + js + "'");
+		et2_debug("log", "Compiled PHP " + _expr + " --> " + js);
 
 		// Prepate the attributes for the function constuctor
 		var attrs = [];
@@ -415,3 +420,25 @@
 
 }).call(window);
 
+
+
+// Include this code in in order to test the above code
+/*(function () {
+	var row = 10;
+	var row_cont = {"title": "Hello World!"};
+	var cont = {10: row_cont};
+
+	function test(_php, _res)
+	{
+		console.log(
+			et2_compilePHPExpression(_php, ["row", "row_cont", "cont"])
+				(row, row_cont, cont) === _res);
+	}
+
+	test("${row}[title]", "10[title]");
+	test("{$row_cont[title]}", "Hello World!");
+	test('{$cont["$row"][\'title\']}', "Hello World!");
+	test("\\\\", "\\");
+	test("", "");
+})();*/
+