eval and @

[zingbats]

Hi!

I am using this code:

<? 
eval('?>'.$code);
?>

to get this from the database... (it is a staff app mailer)

<?
$date = date ("l dS of M Y h:i:s");
?>
<?php 
$to  = "Alex <" . [email][e-mail][/email] . ">";

$headers  = "From: \"".addslashes($name)."\" <".$email.">\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$email."\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: Normal\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: Staff App sorm\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: <".$email.">\n";
$headers .= "Received: (qmail 3299 invoked by uid 417) $date -0000\n";

$message = "Name: $name\n";
$message .= "Age: $age\n";
$message .= "email: $email\n";
$message .= "Job: $job\n";
$message .= "About them: $about_u\n";
$message .= "Why you: $why_u\n";
$message .= "hours: $hours\n";
$message .= "Anything else: $else\n";

$subject = "staff application request";

mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers ) or print "Error handling message. message not sent.";
?>
<?
}
?>
Your application has been sent.

I get this error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '@' in /path/index.php(174) : eval()'d code on line 5

[TruckStuff]

$to  = "Alex <" . [email][e-mail][/email] . ">";

What exactly are you trying to do here? Your code is throwing an error because it is attempting to evaluate the middle portion of this line. My guess is that you want this to be a string, not PHP code.

[zingbats]

the [email] thing was added by the forums

[Weedpacket]

But even taking those vBcode tags out, you still have the email address itself floating around syntax-highlighted to show that it's being read as code and not a string:

$to  = "Alex <" . [e-mail] . ">";

[TruckStuff]

the [email] thing was added by the forums

What weedpacket said. ok, but that line of code is still not a valid PHP expression. As things stand right now, PHP is trying to evaluate the following as PHP code:

[e-mail]

That's why your getting the error. I think what you are really looking for is something like the following:

$to  = "Alex <" . '[e-mail]' . ">";

If you could clear up exactly what it is you are trying to accomplish and why this is being pulled from a database, that would be helpful.