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 Posted by Justin Gruenberg on 05/15/05 17:04 
On 15/05/05, blackwater dev <blackwaterdev@gmail.com> wrote: 
> Hello, 
>  
> this works fine: 
>  
> $name="fido"; 
> $string="my dog's name is $name"; 
> echo $string;//prints my dog's name is fido 
>  
> but when I store the string "my dog's name is $name" in the db and pull it out: 
>  
> //do the query 
> $row=$datab->fetch(); 
> $name="fido"; 
> $string=$name['db_column']; 
> echo $string//prints my dog's name is $name 
>  
> How can I get it to work with the db? 
 
Not exactly sure if this will work, but try 
 
echo eval($string)
 
  
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