getting data from database to be parsed in php

[mix_master_mike]

Hello,

I'm writing a guestbook application where the HTML for viewing is stored in a database. The information stored in the database may look something like this:

<p><a href=\"mailto:$email\">$name</a><br />site: <a href=\"$site\">$site</a><br />$message</p>

Once I drag that out of the database and store it in something like $post, how do I get PHP to reparse that and throw in the data to all of the variables?

Thanks in advance!

[mix_master_mike]

I've found some ugly substr_replace() calls will probably do the job, but not very efficiently. Still looking for the solution..

[laserlight]

You can use [man]eval/man but with extreme caution as it can lead to malicious code injection.