Using variables in templates

[DRJ]

Not sure what I was doing wrong before, but now it seems to be working fine.

I ended up deactivating all the custom plugins because I was getting errors elsewhere. And now when I try adding these variables the same way I was before it works so not sure what was the cause of the issue.

Could have been a typo as well but I tried it several times with simple variables like $x and it wouldn't work so not really sure.

Thanks for the assistance.