Parsing of db results by PHP

Hi all, I have a MySQL db which contains table test, field test... one of the entries is "<? external($url, $text); ?>" Where external() is a function i've written which outputs simple text. I want to be able to put calls to this function into the database, and have them parsed on rendering... With the above example, the raw code is just spat to the browser, and doesn't hit the interpreter. Any ideas? Regards, Robert Robert Gormley robert@seabreeze.asn.au http://seabreeze.asn.au/