parsing php files

Anon

Hey,

I just ran into something peculiar. I have put some .php files into a db that look something like....

What's going on is that the embedded php is not even being parsed. It shows up in the source as viewed through the browser. Double plus ungood!

Any ideas as to why? I would've guessed that the file having a .php extension would be parsed. Any workarounds?

Thanx in advance,
Terrence

Anon

It would be a major security hole if PHP looked into all strings and evaluated them as PHP code. Think about it. I could enter PHP into the textarea form below, and execute code. VERY bad idea.

Read the manual page on eval().

Anon

You know, that had just started knocking around somewhere in the back of my head when I saw that there was a reply to my post. Very good point. I will check that out.

Thanx Steve