I found the first error, so that's set. Thanks for the help so far guys
Next problem
I'd like to select a form field containing the same HTML from eariler, insert that HTML (which uses <?php ?> tags to parse variables) from the MySQL field, then display them on a page and get PHP to actually parse the PHP tags. No luck so far. Everything parses exactly the way I want it to when I take the same data that's in the DB and use it as an included file, but when I echo the HTML from the DB after getting it with a MySQL query the PHP tags and contents are left as regular HTML (PHP doesn't parse the PHP tags).
If I'm being a pain in the ass just let me know
Making every effort to find these answers on my own....