executing php from a database

gotissues68

Howdy all-
I'm trying to figure out a problem (googled and searched here but haven't found anything useful).

What I'm trying to accomplish is the following:

Store content (html and php) in a database, so far this hasn't been an issue. When I called the content from the database its displayed properly with the exception of php commands (specifically include() ). Rather then executing the include statement its printed as HTML in the source code of the document. I found one post on a PHP User Group board but the solutions provided don't seem to really work. I'm almost guessing that this is a security feature and although I'd prefer not to circumvent it, it would greatly help in what I'm trying to accomplish. Any pointers to documents or suggestions would be uber appreciated.

Thanks-
Drew

thorpe

i wouldn't recommend it, but, you might take a look at the [man]eval/man function.

gotissues68

Originally posted by thorpe
i wouldn't recommend it, but, you might take a look at the [man]eval/man function.

I read that somewhere else after I posted :p ... I tried it but its tossing parsing errors. Here is the entire contents of the database table that I'm pulling from.

<body>
<div id=page_shadow>
<center>
<img src=logo.png>
</center>
<div id=page1>
</div>
<div id=page>
<img src=nav.png>
<div id=menu>
<?
$firstcontent = include \"query1.php\";
eval($firstcontent);
?>
</div>
<div id=menu1>
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<? include \"query.php\"; ?>
<img src=nav.png>
</div>
</div>

When I use eval() I get the following error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '>' in /home/drew/public_html/content-test.php(11) : eval()'d code on line 3

Am I missing something in the usage?

MikeSnead

It could possibly be a retarded method, but maybe you could have a script that pulled the php/html from the database, wrote that to a temporary file... include that temp file... then delete that file at the end of the script.

gotissues68

Found my answer =)

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/6182.htm

Looks like I just wasn't reading the eval manpage hard enough. the eval_html function that is referenced on that page does the trick..