PHP, Echo, and Databases...

[shanksta]

I am building a basic content management system for a website and ran into a small problem...

For every page on my site I use a MySQL DB to retrieve the page contents. I have a field for title, heading, and body. I use the echo funciton in php to show the text in each one of the fields.

However, in the body field I would like to include some small php includes to have scripts show up.

Echo seems to translate everything as text, and thus my <?php require("test.php");?> never shows up.

My question is basically this; how can I get php to interpret a string as php and literal, allowing me to easily put in such an include.

Thanks.

[drew010]

using [man]eval[/man] is a possiblity, or you can write your own custom code where they could type something like #include{pagename.php} and your script parses it and does the include yourself.

[shanksta]

tried eval and it didnt seem to work...

if the body is called $body is my syntax correct in just putting:

eval($body);

Im not sure if thats all I have to do

[shanksta]

can anyone still help with this?

[thorpe]

using eval is still your best option, though this whole idea is a bit of a security risk. are your users adding content themselves? if so... what if a user added php to there content that deleted all the files in your web root?