Fields can contain HTML but not PHP?

jc94062

I've got a date page and to display the date in different timezones after inserting them into a database I thought I had found a way, its to have the below in a field...

<?php $sevenhb = mktime (date("H")-7,date("i"),date("s"),date("m"),date("d"),date("Y")); echo date("H:i:s", $sevenhb); ?>

split up its

<?php
$sevenhb = mktime (date("H")-7,date("i"),date("s"),date("m"),date("d"),date("Y"));
echo date("H:i:s", $sevenhb);
?>

anyways, while I can put HTML such as

<img src = "http://www.mysite.com/images/pic.gif"> in there, it won't do anything with the PHP, just leaves it blank, is there a way to solve this?

Thanks

[deleted]

You need to execute the PHP instead of printing it.
Look at the manual for eval().

jc94062

Hmm, I've had a look and messed about without much luck (I searched on here as well)

What has to go in the field exactly?

I assumed (wrongly) at first that doing

eval ($sevenhb = mktime (date("H")-7,date("i"),date("s"),date("m"),date("d"),date("Y")); echo date("H:i:s", $sevenhb)😉;

would be fine, which of course it wasn't, it just gave me the above in a low line as if it was plain text.

Theres got to be something really obvious I'm missing, I tried all that

eval ("\$str = \"$code\";");

stuff, which also got echoed as plain text :-(

Thanks for any more help

jc94062

I guess that means no-one will help me?

[deleted]

Sorry, I got distracted by a cute brunette...

what's the exact code you tried to use?