Echoing Variables stored in DB HELP!

[TOrpheus]

Hi,

I want to echo a variable reference stored in the database. Here's the sample:

I have table, with one field, a VARCHAR 255.

The data stored in that field is: My name is $name

I retrieve the contents of that record from that table. And store it into a variable, like:

$name = "BOB"; // defined before I retrieve the data from DB.
$tabledata = $ra[field]; // data from DB retrieved okay.
echo $name;

Why won't that work? The intended output is "My name is BOB".

INSTEAD, I get "My name is $name"

Any help greatly appreciated!

[tsinka]

Hi,

can you post the complete code because the example you sent would just echo "BOB".

You might want to use the eval() function, e.g.

eval("echo $tabledata;");

if $tabledata contains "my name is $name" and you defined $name="BOB"; prior to executing eval, eval would take its argument and replace $name by the value of the defined variable $name.

eval must contain valid php code including the ; at the end of a line. eval can take a whole bunch of code including newlines and so on.

Hope I was clear enough 🙂