insert html and php

[Anon]

hello. i need to stick this into a database:

<p align = "left">
<font color = "white">
<form method = "post" action = "bot.php">
<b>Title</b>:<br>
<input type = "text" size = "50" name = "title" value = "<? echo "$etitle"; ?>">
<p align = "left">
<b>New Item</b>:<br>
<textarea rows = "10" cols = "70" name = "body"><? echo "$ebody"; ?></textarea>
<p align = "left">
<input type = "hidden" name = "update" value = "1.1">
<input type = "hidden" name = "maxid" value = "<? echo "$max[0]"; ?>">
<p align = "left">
<input type = "submit" value = "update item">
</form>
</font>
</p>

When i try to put it in a variable i have to escape all the quotes with a shash -- that part works fine. It tends to stumble on the php that it contains. Can anyone help?

thank you!

[Anon]

Ben,

Well, my first look picks out that you don't really need the double quotes around your variables when you are echoing them since they are pure variables and not a string-variable combination

echo "$ebody"; can be changed to echo $ebody; and there shouldn't be a difference.

If you want to literally store the PHP code in the string then you might have to put it between single quotes so it keeps it literally.

$myvar = '<?php echo $myvar; ?>';

rather than

$myvar = "<?php echo $myvar; ?>";

You might need to experiment a little bit with a simpler chunk of HTML/PHP.

Hope that helps a bit

Tim Frank

[Anon]

thank you very much! i will try it out and tell you how it goes.

[sepodati]

If you're planning on running this code after you take it out of the database, then you'll need the eval() function.

---John Holmes...