If you use preg_replace with the e modifier, you can run eval on the variables only: http://us.php.net/preg_replace Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com Phpster wrote: > A couple of options: > > 1. Use eval($databaseString); there are risks as it could be used to > execute arbitrary code should the database be compromised. > > 2. If your data string is enclosed in single quote php won't evaluate > the variables. Consider changing the outside quotes to double quotes. > > Bastien > > Sent from my iPod > > On Jan 6, 2009, at 2:30 PM, "Stephen Sunderlin" > <stephen.sunderlin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I'm emailing an html file through phpmailer and the sql look up is >> getting >> the html from a table and setting it into a variable. Within the >> html from >> the table are also variables that are also being called by the same >> sql that >> is looking up the html variable. However the variable in the html are >> echoing as $var instead of the assigned value being called from the sql >> look-up >> >> Not sure what the solution is. Any thoughts. >> >> >> >> -- >> PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
