making a variable get used with a variable

DKY

I have this problem, that's REALLY difficult to explain. but it all sums down to this.

I've got

$text1="blah";
$text2='$text1';

and I've got

<?php echo $text2; ?>

and all that shows up on the page is $text1, when I want the text that $text1 is assigned to to show up. How do I do this?

is there a function I'm missing?

lanjoky

$text1="blah"; 
$text2= $text1;

Take off the single quotes and see if that is what your looking for!!

DKY

Im going to have to explain a little better, and I hope I dont cause confusion. The lack of single quotes would have probably worked if this was what I was doing, which is what in essence I thought I was, but I was wrong. Here's what I'm doing. I've got these files, that write to a txt file...so I've got the form which is called whatitis.php, and the file it refers to in the action of the form property called whatitis2.php, and the whatitis.txt.

I wanted to put variables in there, so that I didnt have to change the action all the time, and the txt all the time when I made a intro.php, and a intro2.php, a header.php, and a header2.php, so on and so forth. So I had some help with that. and the whatitis.php ended up looking like so.

<HTML>
 <HEAD>
  <TITLE></TITLE>
  </HEAD>
  <body>

<?php
//the txt files cannot contain numbers, ie 1header.txt does not work, so the name of this file can't have a number in it.

//requires var.php which has the variable Mypath in it
require("var.php");

//echos variable mypath from var.php to bring it in to the file
echo $Mypath;

//$_server['php_self'] calls the file path, and the file....the "([^\\]+).php" gets rid of all that garbage, and just gives it the files name.
$script = eregi("([^\\\/\/]+)\.php",$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'],$regs);

//asigns the name of this php file with the .txt extension to the $txt variable
$txt = $regs[1].'.txt';

//assigns the path to the txt file to $fullpath calling the following variables
$fullPath = $MyPath . $txt;

//asigns the actual file from the $fullpath to the $display1 variable
$display1 = file($fullPath);


$displaytext1 = implode("", $display1);

//strips /'s from don't and others for what's displayed in the textarea
$displaytext1 = stripslashes($displaytext1);

$script = eregi("([^\\\/\/]+)\.php",$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'],$regs);

//asigns a .php extension to the name of this file, and puts it in the variable $action
$action = $regs[1].'2.php';

//echo's the form...for some reason that's needed in order to use the $action variable
echo "<form action=\"$action\"  method=\"post\" target=\"main\">";

?>

<CENTER>
   <P ALIGN=CENTER>
    <TABLE WIDTH="600" bordercolor="black" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" BORDER="0">
     <TR>

 <TD style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width:1" style="border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1" style="border-top-style: solid; border-top-width:1" style="border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1" WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="#F1F1F1" VALIGN=center>&nbsp;<b>Whatitis:</b>  A short sentence that explains what's below.</TD>
 </TR>
 <TR>

 <TD WIDTH="100%" VALIGN=TOP><p>
<textarea name="whatitis" cols="75" rows="1" wrap><?php echo $displaytext1; ?></textarea>
</p></TD>
     </TR>
         </TABLE>
<p>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Save Changes">
</p>
</form>
</body></html>

now I want to replace the

<b>Whatitis:</b>

in the title area with a variable that would be on my var.php file in the same directory as the whatitis.php. So, I thought I'd just do like so....and replace the

<b>Whatitis:</b>

with a

<?php echo $thetitle; ?>

and add a

require("var.php");
$thetitle = '$'.$regs[1].'title';

at the top, in the php section. all that does is display $whatitistitle in the title area of my form. Any suggestions?