Parse PHP in a $variable

[Anon]

I'm having a problem parsing php inside a php variable. So, I would be doing something like this:

-----code start-----
<?
$variable = '<b>Hello <? echo "world"; ?></b><br>';
echo $variable;
?>
-----code end-----

this would only output 'hello' b/c the php would not get parsed. Is there a function that I'm missing?

-Doug

[Anon]

Use eval() [http://php.net/manual/function.eval.php].

[Anon]

I've tried this:

eval($r['shorttitle']);
echo $r['shorttitle'];

and get the following error:

Parse error: parse error in Eval code on line 1

any ideas?