how to echo inside variables?

[peter11]

hi all im haveing problems with this.

 

$q1 =  $_POST["q1"];
$message = ($sp1).($q1);
$sp1 = "Once went on a trip to ";
$ap1 = "<input type='text' name='q1' />";

 

if i run this it will display what ever was entered in the input box however wont show "sp1" I have tried echo'ing sp1 but it wont let me do that and still carry out the $message.

 

Please note the code is not in order. This is just snippits of the code im haveing problems with. also "sp1" and "ap1" are in another file. They needs to be.

 

Any ideas?

 

thanks in advance.

 

[Alex]

In that code you're using $sp1 before you're defining, which you obviously can't do.