Wrong address sorry. -----Original Message----- From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Liz Lawson Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 6:31 AM To: jay at trans-city.com; thelist at lists.evolt.org Subject: Re: [thelist] php variables in mysql output Thanks Jay. eval() was the thing, although it took a bit of fiddling to get it to put the parsed html into a variable rather than just it straight to the browser...I'm doing this now (it's PHP4 only) $var = stuff from db; $var = "return \"$var\";"; $var = eval($var); If it's not a good idea i'm happy to be educated... thanks for your help Liz -----Original Message----- From: Jay Greenspan <jay at trans-city.com> To: lizlawson at charitycards.co.uk <lizlawson at charitycards.co.uk> Date: 06 December 2000 15:37 Subject: Re: [thelist] php variables in mysql output don't know if someone replied to this yet... If I read your question right, I think the eval() function will do what you need... --------------------------------------- For unsubscribe and other options, including the Tip Harvester and archive of TheList go to: http://lists.evolt.org Workers of the Web, evolt !