On Thursday 25 July 2002 05:11, Raquel Rice wrote: > Thank you, Martin, for your informative response. If I understand > correctly what you're saying, it would work to do (in psuedo code > and reduce to simplest form): > > store_to_db(text = "My name is $name.")
Here $name will be evaluated and stored. Thus if $name was empty/not defined then it would store "My name is .". If $name was defined as eg. 'Tom', then text stored would be "My name is Tom.". > The at runtime I could do: > > get_from_db(text) Would retrieve whatever you stored, ie: My name is . or My name is Tom. > $name = 'Raquel' > echo "My name is $name" > OUTPUT: My name is Raquel > > Is that correct? Therefore it will not work. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* The trouble with heart disease is that the first symptom is often hard to deal with: death. -- Michael Phelps */ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php