Values of variables in query string

Hi,

This problem is a bit convoluted, but bear with me.

Get info from mysql table, then

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
global $url;
$url = $row["url"];

echo "$engineurl";
}

But here is my problem:

$engineurl is stored in a mysql table as http://www.domain1.com?url=$url

$url is stored in another table as http://www.domain2.com. I issue a separate query to obtain it.

Ultimately, the output I expect for $engineurl is http://www.domain1.com?url=http://www.domain2.com.

Instead what I get is http://www.domain1.com?url=$url. This means php does not recognize $url as a variable in the query string.

However, when I manually add $url to the query string like this:

echo "$engineurl . $url";

Any ideas why php does not recognize $url as a variable?

The above is just a simplified version of what I'm actually working on. Thanks.

Richie.

Because it is taking it as a literal string out of the database. If you want to evaluate it, you need to use eval().

Chris

You're a genius! Thank you so much.

Richie.