Executing Stored PHP Code (AKA eval() Trouble)

[thissa]

I'm having trouble executing stored PHP code. I have a number of templates (parsed into an intermediary language (straight PHP) from a tag-based custom syntax), and I'm trying to store in a string and echo their executed values.

I thought I could do this:

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

No luck. 🙁 (Though I seem to remember having done that successfully in the past.)

Anyway, any suggestions? Thanks! 🙂

[drawmack]

yeah, run the php when your parsing the file and insert the outputs instead of waiting until later.

[thissa]

Not sure what you mean. 🙁 Can you clarify that?

Sorry if I'm a little thick. 😉

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by thissa

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

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I find it works better without the <?php (not knowing how yours breaks):

<?php
$foo = "Badgers";
$template = '<b><?php echo "$foo!!!"; ?></b>';
eval('?>'.$template);
?>