This is actually much better the { and } make it very obvious where the variable is and also it can keep odd issues from occurring sometimes. $message="<b> There is a text {$variable} trial. </b> "; There is always sprint type functions also. David -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Ballard [mailto:aballard@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:23 PM To: Bulend Kolay Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: how call a variable in a text 2009/10/21 Bulend Kolay <bmalik@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I 'll send a mail in html form using php5. > > cat send.php > <?php > $variable="date1" ; > .. > .. > $message=' > > <b> There is a text $variable trial. </b> '; > > mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) ; ?> > > when I run send.php, I get the mail. But I can't call variable called > variable. it comes as string. > How can I correct this? > You need to use double quotes (or HEREDOC) if you want PHP to replace $variable with its value in the string: $message=" <b> There is a text $variable trial. </b> "; or $message = <<<MESSAGE <b> There is a text $variable trial. </b> MESSAGE; Andrew -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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