Question

basically I am try to get the php file to create another php file which has XHTML, PHP and MYSQL within it. I am trying to include a MYSQL query but the problem is that the apostrophe (‘) that I use to start the fwrite string get confused when it reaches a MYSQL query because it too also has an apostrophe but I just want that string to continue not end. What should I do for this to work? Thanks in advance for any help.

The code (just the relevant bit):

$filename = "websites/".$firstpage.".php";
$filehandle = fopen($filename, 'w') or die("error opening file");
$datawrite = '
$query = "SELECT websitetitle FROM $weblist WHERE webID='$webID'";
$result =  mysql_query ($query);
$row = mysql_fetch_array( $result );

echo $row['webID'];

';
fwrite($filehandle, $datawrite);

fclose($filehandle);

Answer 1

You should escape the ‘ in the query with \’ This will not exec and end the string

$filename = "websites/".$firstpage.".php";
$filehandle = fopen($filename, 'w') or die("error opening file");
$datawrite = '
    $query = "SELECT websitetitle FROM $weblist WHERE webID=\'$webID\'";
    $result =  mysql_query ($query);
    $row = mysql_fetch_array( $result );

    echo $row[\'webID\'];

';
fwrite($filehandle, $datawrite);

fclose($filehandle);

Check this out for reference
http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php