Re: Why wont this work?

Your line in in news_publish.php is: while($templine=fgets($tempfile, 4096) ) { if you want to test if $templine is equal to fgets($tempfile, 4096) then you should use 2 equal signs. So, while($templine==fgets($tempfile, 4096) ) { 1 equal sign sets the value of the right side to the left. HTH, Pat In a message dated 7/23/01 12:18:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, boz@musheen.com writes: > news_publish.php > *************** > <?php > function DoTemplate() { > $filedir = func_get_arg(0); > $filename = func_get_arg(1); > $news = func_get_arg(2); > $tempfile = fopen ("$filedir" . "/" . "$filename" . > ".html", "r") or die > ("Failed to open template file $filename"); > while($templine=fgets($tempfile, 4096) ) { > $templine = > preg_replace("/(<NEWS>)(.*?)(<\/NEWS>)/i","\\1$news\\2", > $templine)); > print ($templine); > } > fclose ($tempfile); > } > $template_dir="/php/work/boz"; > $template_filename="news"; > $news="SOME STUFF GOES HERE BUILD IT AS A VAR"; > DoTemplate($template_dir,$template_filename); > ?> > ********************************************** > > news.html > ******************************* > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> > > > <head> > <title>No Title</title> > </head> > > > > <NEWS>This is some text</NEWS> > > > > ******************************************** > > Results in > > Parse error: parse error in /php/work/boz/news_publish.php on line 8 > >