[RESOLVED] print variable containing code

leena

Hello Everyone,

I have a strange problem.

I am getting a variable $pageContent from another web company. The pageContent contains html, head and body tags as well as a form and a javascript to submit the form.

I am trying to put all this code from this variable on my page. However, when I put:
print"$pageContent";

It prints all the code (tags, javascript and all) rather than actually using the tags to create the form and execute the javascript. Does anyone have any idea why this might happen?

Since the code prints out on my web page, I just copied it, and then tried putting that directly into my page and it works! However, as soon as I keep in the variable and print the variable it does not work. What would cause this?

Thank you for your time. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,
Lena

OOhh... I was just told that they are passing the pageContent in a query post, not a form post. What is a query post, and how does that affect php?

The_Chancer

http://www.php.net/eval

That should sort you out... - regardless of it being a form post (ie from a form) or a query( ie from a database)

MStaniszczak

What is in $pageContent? PHP code? HTML+JS+CSS? If HTML eval isn't good solution. Eval parse code from variable, and it’s sloooooww. If you have in this variable only HTML+JS+CSS for display it, and if after

echo $pageContent;

you see code, not the page, then guilt is probably htmlentities or something like this. Look at code generatet after
echo $pageContent;

If you have < is replaced by <, > is replaced by > and so on, try use

echo  html_entity_decode($pageContent);

Best regards,
Marcin Staniszczak

leena

Ok, i've tried both and it's still not working.

This still just prints the code twice:
echo $pageContents. "\n";
eval("\$pageContents = \"$pageContents\";");
echo $pageContents. "\n";

The code does not replace any < with < or &gt.

I tried the html_entity_decode, and it did not print anything.

Here's the code I am getting from another company through the pageContent variable:
<HTML><HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM action="https://acs.gpayments.com:443/0/o3VIVtW1xrGihP6ixxueuBoAAAA0" method=POST id=form1 name=form1>

</FORM>

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">document.form1.submit();</SCRIPT>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Thanks for your time.

Weedpacket

eval("\$pageContents = \"$pageContents\";");

This literally has no effect.

What exactly does $pageContents contain? Before you do anything with it, save it into a file and have a look at it with a text editor.

$fp=fopen('sample.txt','wb');
fwrite($fp, $pageContents);
fclose($fp);

If you can't see what's wrong from that, attach it here. And how exactly are you trying to display it? The problem might lie there.

Incidentally, the system this outfit you're dealing with has a really bizarre-looking process.