Putting a variable in DB output

[Jackolicious]

I'm pulling HTML from a DB and would like it to respond to variables from the outside...

Say I have this in my MySQL field:

Hello, <?=$name?>

and this is my code

$name = "Jack";
$rq = $db->query("SELECT * from greetings WHERE id = '$gid'");
while ($r = $db->fetch_array($rq))
{
echo $r['greeting'];
}

How do I get it to work?

[thorpe]

you need to use the [man]eval/man function.

[Jackolicious]

Thank you!!!!