should i use eval()

[witold]

Hi,

I'm looking for some help to solve my problem. Let me explain.

I have a collection of over 100 press articles. Contents of each article is stored in one DB field called body. Recently, I have come to an idea to embed an advertisement into this contents. However, in order to do this I'd have to split each article into 3 parts: intro, main part and ending. Advertisement would appear somewhere between intro and main.

Original article:

aaaaaaaaa
bbbbbbbbb
cccccccccccc

Desirable article:
aaaaaaaaa
//advertisement//
bbbbbbbbb
ccccccccccc

Then I came to think there might be a work around to avoid changing such a big amount of text. I put the advertisement into
an include file e.g. advert.php. In the database, in the body of the article i wrote: include("advert.php");

In the php file:
$body = $row["body"];
eval($body);
echo $body;

As you may guess nothing happens
After connecting to DB I get the contents of the article
and the error: Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING

Do I really need to split over 100 article to get my advertisement appear between the lines?

witold

[freebie]

Here's what you can do.
Put the advertisement code into a variable (either in an included file or at the top of the script).
In your Textual content pulled from the database, add something like **Advertisement** (in the spot where you want the advertisement to display)

Then, when your outputting that content, do a str_replace on it like such
echo str_replace("**Advertisement**",$myad,$myrow['TheContent']);

-hth

[witold]

Thank you very much.

It works as intended.

Witold