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I am pulling data from the exp_channel_data table.  One of the fields contains name data in the format <lastname, firstname>.  I need to use this data in a php segment.  When I try to use this data it throws errors that I am passing two values to a function that only expects one value or “Use of undefined constant <lastname>”.  It is treating the single value as two comma separated values. I don’t understand why this is happening.  The value pulled from the db should be treated as a string…not two strings.

How can I avoid this?

I’m using ExpressionEngine v2.5.2 - Build Date: 20120606

Thanks,

Kevin

Hello Kevin,

Thank you for posting your question.

How are you pulling this data? Is this using a channel entries tag?

Is this a custom script you wrote?

Please let me know.

Thank you,

Hi Shane,

I figured out what I was doing wrong.  I am pulling the data using the Query module.  When I was storing the name value to a php variable I forgot to wrap it in quotes.

I was doing this $p_name = {field_id_4}

when I should have been doing this $p_name = ‘{field_id_4}’;

Thanks,

Kevin

Hey there kalspaugh,

Awesome! Nice work getting it figured out!

If you need anything else, please just let me know by opening a new thread.

Cheers,