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**bill benson** · 09-01-2008, 01:44 PM

I've worked for hours on this. Any help is appreciated.

I've got something line this. I'm inputting variables in a form. selecting a template from a db table, then writing a web page.

for simplicity say the template is: <html>$var</html>

Page:

$template='test';
$page='test';
$var='marcia';

$query11="SELECT template_text FROM `page_template` WHERE template = '$template'";
$result11=mysql_query($query11) or die ("couldn't execute query11");
$num11=mysql_numrows($result11);
$template_text=mysql_result($result11,$i11,"templa te_text");
$depage="$template_text";

$page="/subdirectory/$page.php";

$myfile = fopen ("/home/name/public_html/$page","w");
fwrite ($myfile, "$depage\n");
fclose ($myfile);

The page is written but it is:

<html>$var</html>

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Now if I do this it works:

$page='test';
$var='marcia';
$depage="<html>$var</html>";
$page="/subdirectory/$page.php";

$myfile = fopen ("/home/name/public_html/$page","w");
fwrite ($myfile, "$depage\n");
fclose ($myfile);

This writes the following page test.php which is what I want:

</html>marcia</html>

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How do I get example 1 to work using the template with the variable in it?

**Sleeping Troll** · 03:08 PM

echo "<html>".$var."</html>";

**bill benson** · 09-01-2008, 05:40 PM

echo where?

The variable $depage contains <html>$var</html>. I tried '<html>'.$var.'</html>' in the template, but it didn't work. I didn't try it with double quotes though.

I'm trying to write a html page though, not display it. Where would an echo help me write the page?

Effictively I'm doing this:

filling our a form and posting them as variables
grabbing a template from a db that contains text and $var (and other variables)
saving the variables in a db (this works. all variables are being posted)
writing a webpage from the template. This works

the script at the point I am trying to write contains:
The script also contains $variable1='x';
$template which is text$VARIABLE1text

All of this works if I place the template in a variable on the page ie $template="text$variableText";

If I select the exact same content from a table and put it in a variable named $template it doesn't work.