So if I'm reading this right - the code you are referring to is part of $template['template'] ?

If that's the case then yes, you will simply get the code - as all you are doing is getting the contents and storing them in $myxml. You would need to eval the contents - and they would need to be in a format that eval can handle.

Alternatively, you could store some unique text in the template where the value should go, and do a replacement on it after getting the contents.

Yeah. I thought of str_replace, but it's a lot of options and phrases.

In the attached example, I got no problem with getting from database as no customizations involved.

As Paul has already mentioned, you need to evaluate the text of the template.

Thanks, but that did not help.

I resorted doing it the hard way.

if ($template['template']==1){

all the code
}

else {

}

My php file went from 5k to 56k.

Thank you everyone for trying to help. I feel important in this thread. I had all the big guys in here :D