Re: Include code from database?

On Thursday 09 November 2000 22:08, chris wrote: > Is there any easy way to store PHP / HTML code in a database, and > pull it into a running PHP script? I'd like to build a template- > based system where every page is generated by a single script, > which pulls page-specific content from a MySQL database. But I > can't figure out how to include PHP code "on the fly," or if it's > even possible. > > I'm thinking the script will probably have to create a temporary > file on the local system, building it with the template and > the content pulled, and then include() it; this seems exceedingly > resource-intensive, however, and I'd like to find a better way. > (I could do it on a RAM disk, but this is a shared box that I > rent space on, so I don't have root access to set something like > that up.) > > Thanks in advance! > > Chris You should use the eval function. Pull the content from your db into a string and feed it to the eval function. See http://www.php.net/eval -- Meir Kriheli MKsoft computer systems "There's someone in my head but it's not me" - Pink Floyd