How to update a website

[redrabbit]

Guys, how do you think its best to create a site that you can update really easily.

On my page i have the sections:
Articles
News
* Projects

I am thinking that it would be best to have a form to add an article in. You can select weather it is a News item, article item or project item.

It is then put into a mysql database and if a user clicks on Articles then it goes :
Record 1: if its article output it
Record 2: if its article output it

... And so on.

The only problem with doing this is that you cant put any php in.

If you have <?php echo "hello" ?> in a mysql record it wont work, because you will be using php to output the contents of the mysql record.

I know i can use eval() but dont want to.

Does anyone have any other suggestions ?

[jpmoriarty]

i'm not sure why you'd want your entries to have php in them. the idea would be to use php to design a "template" system that takes the text to populate the page from the database. You'd usually use add_slashes() to make sure there was no nasty code in the database entries anyway.

but i can't think of a situation where you'd be adding an "article" and want to include php in it...

[redrabbit]

Maybe if you wanted to have a form and have it post to itself, like:

"You have filled in this form, thanks!"

I was just wondering though