Thanks. I will try the eval. Appreciate the help.! Mike
"Jason Barnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Warning* I don't really suggest that you use eval() unless absolutely necessary. But in this case it does what I *think* you want it to do. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.eval.php Luis Moreira wrote: > What do you mean by "it doesn't work" ? > It does (the minitest, I mean). > > Luis > > MikeA wrote: > >> I have a PHP file that outputs HTML to the Internet to a user. The >> user also wants to be able to >> print that output to a printer. The user wants it formatted with page >> breaks in the proper place >> and so on. Using one PHP script to do both, short of a line to >> display and a line to print, is >> there a way to do this easily or am I in a pond of alligators? Most >> of the output is using an echo >> statement. I thought of trying to take a var and set it top echo or >> write according to what is >> needed at that time. Here is my minitest. >> >> <?php >> echo "<P>The test is starting"; >> >> $echowrite = "echo "; >> >> $echowrite."<P>This is the first line."; eval ($echowrite); >> >> echo "<P>You should have seen the first line by now."; >> >> ?> -- Teach a person to fish... Ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html PHP Manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php php-general archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&w=2 -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
