Getting Eval to work with this...

[marius_13]

I'm trying to get eval to work in the following environment...
but am having problems... Is this even possible?

<?php

$test = "<table><tr><td>Hi ";
$test .= "<?php for ($i=0; $i<5; $i++)\n";
$test .= "{print $i;}?>\n";
$test .= "</td></tr></table>";

$t = eval($test);
print $t;

?>

I'm getting an error:

Parse error: parse error in /home/my_domain/public_html/release/index.php(28) : eval()'d code on line 1

FYI, the test is actually retreived from a DB.

Thanks,
Brian

[swr]

Eval starts out in PHP mode, so if you have HTML there it is like doing "<?php <table>" which is an error.

There are several examples on the [man]eval[/man] page that show how to do it. I haven't tried it, but it suggests that something like this will work:

eval(' ?>'.$test.'<?php ');

[dave420]

I think the real issue here is why are you using eval() in the first place? It should only be used as a last-ditch, and judging by your code it shouldn't be in there...