Opening files

I am trying to use text and images from separate files to populate descriptions and images for specific queries. I have used something like echo "<img src="$row["image"]">"; with little success (parse error expecting "," or ";" - on the line in question). I assume that I would have to use fopen for the text but have not found a suitable example. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Michael Conway mconway3@cox.net (703) 968-8875