diff --git a/change_log.txt b/change_log.txt
index f10d5595..d7c31df4 100644
--- a/change_log.txt
+++ b/change_log.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 ===== trunk  =====
+10.10.2011
+- bugfix variable name typo in {html_options} and {html_checkboxes} (Issue #54)
+
+===== Smarty-3.1.3  =====
 07.10.2011
 - improvement removed html comments from {mailto} (Forum Topic 20092)
 - bugfix testInstall() would not show path to internal plugins_dir (Forum Post 74627)
diff --git a/libs/plugins/function.html_checkboxes.php b/libs/plugins/function.html_checkboxes.php
index d620621b..1e8beb48 100644
--- a/libs/plugins/function.html_checkboxes.php
+++ b/libs/plugins/function.html_checkboxes.php
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ function smarty_function_html_checkboxes($params, $template)
                     foreach ($_val as $_sel) {
                         if (is_object($_sel)) {
                             if (method_exists($_sel, "__toString")) {
-                                $selected = smarty_function_escape_special_chars((string) $_sel->__toString());
+                                $_sel = smarty_function_escape_special_chars((string) $_sel->__toString());
                             } else {
                                 trigger_error("html_checkboxes: selected attribute contains an object of class '". get_class($_sel) ."' without __toString() method", E_USER_NOTICE);
                                 continue;
diff --git a/libs/plugins/function.html_options.php b/libs/plugins/function.html_options.php
index 0a2b9772..86266e26 100644
--- a/libs/plugins/function.html_options.php
+++ b/libs/plugins/function.html_options.php
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ function smarty_function_html_options($params, $template)
                     foreach ($_val as $_sel) {
                         if (is_object($_sel)) {
                             if (method_exists($_sel, "__toString")) {
-                                $selected = smarty_function_escape_special_chars((string) $_sel->__toString());
+                                $_sel = smarty_function_escape_special_chars((string) $_sel->__toString());
                             } else {
                                 trigger_error("html_options: selected attribute contains an object of class '". get_class($_sel) ."' without __toString() method", E_USER_NOTICE);
                                 continue;