| Brian Stoffer 2004-05-23, 7:30 pm |
| Hi there. I have what I suspect is an easy one, but was unable to find
something similar in the archives (it's a tough one to search for...).
Basically I have a table with a text block column. The actual content
that lives in column contains php variables that I want to be able to
use when I pull the text out of the database. Let me give you an
example:
Content:
"Hi there. My name is $name. This is a bunch of text that $othername
is telling me to populate with some data. Hopefully you will be able
to help $othername and I get this to work. Thanks!"
Now, in my script I want to be able to pull names out of another table,
initialize the $name and $othername variables, then pull out the
content above, parse the "names" variables and display it in the
browser.
My problem is the variables don't get parsed. I've tried a few obvious
things, like storing the text in a variable, using print or echo, and
so-on, even processing it with the various text-to-html functions
hoping that it would process the variables, but it seems like it's
treating the text as a literal and not actually parsing the variables.
I suspect it has something to do with either the order, the method of
output, or some pre-processing that I'm missing, but after a few hours
I simply can't get it.
Thanks for any advice!
-b
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