Re: [PHP-DB] Echoing a variable within a variable.

[email protected] (Micah Gersten)
Newsgroups php.db
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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"
> <[email protected]> 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.
>>
>>
>>
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