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Storing PHP Variable in SQL

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:31 am
by oewMind
I am trying to store a standardized text into a database. I want it to store some of my php session variables so when I call it , it will display the current value.

I am storing text that looks like this:

'<?php echo $firstName; ?> Wants to send you a gift ....'

I tried storing it a couple other ways thinking I had my tags in the wrong place. Stored like that I dont even see the code, I only see 'Wants to send you a gift ...'. So I am thinking its recognizing it but dont know why it isnt printing.

I am putting it my document like this:

echo $row_gift['Description'];

I am thinking I should be trying it in an include and it might work better. So I thought echoing it in another document and trying to include it would work, but didnt.

Help please...

Thanks in advance.

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:55 am
by malcolmboston
why not just use something like

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{username} is trying to send you a gift
and then do:

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$newString = str_replace ("{username}", $yourText, $sqlResult);
Much easier to manage in my opinion

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:07 am
by oewMind
I want to give the owner of the site the ability to add future text selections or edit the current ones. So I would like to pull it from a database rather than hard coded.

Any suggestions?