On 15/05/05, blackwater dev <blackwaterdev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > this works fine: > > $name="fido"; > $string="my dog's name is $name"; > echo $string;//prints my dog's name is fido > > but when I store the string "my dog's name is $name" in the db and pull it out: > > //do the query > $row=$datab->fetch(); > $name="fido"; > $string=$name['db_column']; > echo $string//prints my dog's name is $name > > How can I get it to work with the db? Not exactly sure if this will work, but try echo eval($string) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php