PHP in MySQL

[arneman]

I want to make a tutorial website, but making the PHP tutorial I ran into a little problem. I usually save my tutorials in MySQL in HTML. This works fine, the HTML is shown as text with the correct layout.

The PHP only works partially. I want to do the following:

<p>test</p>
<?php
highlight_string('echo "test";');
?>

On my screen i see, 'echo "test"' but without the highlights. Any suggestions on how to change this?

[dagon]

to run code in a string pulled from the db you would use eval(), but be careful it can be dangerous in the wrong hands

[arneman]

Can you tell me how this can be used? Because I can't seem to understand the PHP manual on eval()

[arneman]

Nevermind I worked around it using a second field containing the PHP code.

Thanks anyway.