Looking for a where to start.

[windex]

Im working on a personal project, and have run into the following:

I have a template that has various tags, {formated_like_this}. Im creating an array of things that need to be replaced and what it is to be replaced with.

array ( 
	"{this_tag}" => "will become this" 
)

Simple things like this work fine when loading from a db.

But i also need to put function names or variable names into the "change to" value.

array (
 "{this_tag}" => will_become_this();
 "{or_this}" => $with_this;
)

the problem ive found is if you put those into the database thats what gets printed out, ive looked extensivly over variable variables and have a feeling these are what i need to use, unfortunatly im finding the explinations of variable variables very confusing.

i can of course simply create the entire array in a seperate php file, and it will work accordingly, but for my intents id like it in a database.

[windex]

bump, heres the function its occuring in->

	
function init ($db) {


	$sql = 'SELECT * ';
	$sql .= 'FROM `config`';
	$result = $db->execute_query($sql);

	if ($result) {
		while( $row = $db->fetch_row_array($result) ) {
			$setting = $row["setting"];
			$value = $row["value"];
			$this->settings[$setting] = $value;
		}
	}

}

$value is going to be text and variable names, but if you pull that directly from a database you will be left with exactly what was in the database, leaving $variable's all over the place. I need the $variables turned into the value for the variable with that name.

I hope it makes more sense now.