eval() error

[Anon]

With the following code below the eval line is producing an error. Does anyone know why and how to fix it? I am LOST!

		$file = file("welcome_mail.txt");
		$file_string = implode("",$file);
		eval ("\$mailbody = \"$file_string\";");
		$sender_name = "AccountManager";
		$sender_mail = "[e-mail]";
		$subject = "MacVillage.net Account";
		$message = "Default text for PHP mailer";
			@mail($recipient_mail,"$subject","$mailbody",
			"From: $sender_name <$sender_mail>\nReply-To: $sender_name 
			<$sender_mail>\nContent-type: text/plain\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion()); 
			return 2;

[Anon]

The most likely potential source of trouble is the data in welcome_mail.txt. Are there characters in that file that PHP might attempt to interpret?

Beyond that, what is the purpose of using eval() in this piece of code? If it works properly it accomplishes absolutely nothing. What are you trying to do?

[Anon]

The purpose is to interpret this piece of code (which also contains HTML)

[Anon]

OK, I see what you're trying to do. If your code looks like this:

<?
$name = "I. M. Weasel";
$file = file("welcome_mail.txt");
$file_string = implode("",$file);
eval ("\$mailbody = \"$file_string\";");
echo $mailbody;
?>

and your textfile looks like this:

Dear $name;<BR>
Please pay your cable TV bill.<BR>
Sincerely, the management.

... eval() will consider the textfile to be a double-quoted string, and will perform variable substitutions:

Dear I. M. Weasel;<BR>
Please pay your cable TV bill.<BR>
Sincerely, the management.

So there's nothing wrong with your eval statement. What's the textfile look like?

[Anon]

If you have any double-quotes in your welcome_mail.txt file, it will break the eval statement as you've written it.

Try using addslashes($file_string) before the eval statement.

-Keegan

[Anon]

Didn't work, any other ideas?

[Anon]

What error are you getting?

-Keegan