Either what Kris says, or you can use a templating engine. See Smarty (http://smarty.php.net) On 7/29/05, Kristen G. Thorson <kthorson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is there a particular reason you need *PHP* in the database? If not, > then use a placeholder system of some sort ( like #var# ) and str_replace(): > > while( $row=mysql_fetch_row($result) ) { > echo str_replace( '#var#', $that_var, $row['entry'] ); > } > > > > kgt > > > > > Nathaniel Hall wrote: > > >I am working on a project that uses an index.php page. Depending on the > >variable in the URL, a different php page is included. I have a > >config.php that contains variables that are accessible from any page. > >That is the easy part. > > > >I have some pages pulling HTML out of a database. I would like to be > >able to reference some of the variables in the config.php in the > >database blob field. Here is an example: > > > >index.phphalln_\@_otc_\._edu > >------ > ><html><head>...etc > ><?php > > include 'config.php'; > > if (blabla) { > > include "thispage.php"; > > } else { > > include "thatpage.php"; > > } > >?> > > > >config.php > >------ > ><?php > > $this_var=1; > > $that_var="Nothing"; > >?> > > > >test.php > >------ > ><?php > > $query="SELECT * from table"; > > $result=mysql_query($query) or die ("Cannot process query"); > > $row=mysql_fetch_row($result); > > echo $row[1]; > >?> > > > >MySQL record: > >------ > >id,year,month,day,entry > > > >1,2005,01,01,This is a test<br><? echo $that_var; ?> > > > >_____________________________ > >I have tried using <br>>? echo $that_var; ?< and I have tried > >escaping everything, but that still didn't work. Any ideas? > > > >Nathaniel Hall > >halln_\@_otc_\._edu > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
