Templates: Content Library Parsing

eojlin

hi,

i'm developing an intranet site that runs on a single template file. content and additional template settings are gathered or queried from a Content Library using MySQL.

i also included some PHP variables as part of the content to be filled into the template queried from the MySQL database. here's the problem, whenever i try to call the content from MySQL and fill them to the template, the php variables are echoed to the HTML source rather than parsed by PHP server. does it have something to do with storing strings with dollar "$" signs to MySQL?

i need help to resolve this problem.

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sample code:

$myQuote = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.";
$myText = "$myQuote";

then $myText were entered to MySQL as LONGTEXT datatype

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first i tried to query for the content from my database, then ECHOed the content to my template.

but when i try to view the source outputed to the browser, it gave me this chunk:

$myQuote

the $myQuote isn't parsed

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eojlin

here's the code again:

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sample code:

$myQuote = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.";
$myText = "$myQuote";

then $myText were entered to MySQL as LONGTEXT datatype

=============================================

first i tried to query for the content from my database, then ECHOed the content to my template.

but when i try to view the source outputed to the browser, it gave me this chunk:

$myQuote"

the $myQuote isn't parsed

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Anon

Try eval()

eojlin

I tried that but it gave me this error:

Parse error: parse error in f:\apache\www\interface\template.php(25) : eval()'d code on line 2

and template.php(25) is:
...
24 if ($dctext) {
25 $myContent = eval($dctext);
26 dispC($myContent);
27 }
...
34 function dispC($mText)
35 {
36 echo "$dispC";
37 }
...

then when i try to transfer the eval() function inside my function dispC() it gives me this error:

Parse error: parse error in f:\apache\www\interface\template.php(25) : eval()'d code on line 4

what is this error? does this concern the quotes inside my string or this concerns my PHP version?

eojlin

sorry, i mean $mText in Line 36
🙂