include php source from database?

[trexx]

hi everybody,

is it possible to include and execute a php-source from a database like you would do it with an ordinary file?

i don't want to dump the source to a file and include it afterwards...

and i don't want to use the eval function neither...

is there another way?

thanks,
tREXX

[AstroTeg]

You'd have to use the eval function or dump it to a file.

I guess think about it - how would you get PHP to retrieve AND execute the code otherwise?

Maybe you can use the system()/exec() function which calls PHP and pass it a string containing all your PHP code in the database. But by doing so, $POST, $GET, etc will probably not contain the data you might be expecting unless you pass it in some how.

[trexx]

Ok - just as i thought sigh :-)

well, then it has to be this way...

btw.: eval is ugly, because you cannot use the '<?php .... ?>' syntax.

and it's unfortunate that "include" can only read from the filesystem ... but anyway... i've got to live with it

thanks a lot,
tREXX

[AstroTeg]

Actually, compared to the old days (before PHP/Java), include() is a huge improvement and rocks. Before you had to use SSI (even in ASP this is true).

Eval isn't too bad. It does add a level of complexity. Try stripping out the <? and ?> if its causing problems.