Re: Tricky one - include($identifer);

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.eval.php Couple of notes from the userbase show how to include HTML in a php $content passed to eval() 'Luck. -Szii At 05:07 PM 2/8/2001 +1300, Simon Helson wrote: >Hey guys - I've been mulling this one over for a few days now - and still >haven't come up with anything intelligent to sort it... > >I'm building a site where you can edit the content on the fly - basically >allowing you to write code and add pages without touching a telnet or ftp >session etc etc etc... > >So I end up with chunks of text stored in my database - which I then pull >out and (currently) do the following with: > ><pull text out of database to $content> >echo $content; > >This works real nice when the text is plain HTML - makes setting up a site >nice-n-easy.. however, I want certain people to be able to put php code in >their snippets using <? and ?> as you would when editing a normal php >file. > >This is where my $echo falls over - none of the php code is executed (as >you would expect). What I really want to be able to do is: > >include($content); > >I haven't been able to find any ways to do this though - eval() looks for >just php code and include() and require() look for filenames. I really >don't want to store my snippets as files - but I guess I may have to if I >can't find a way to pull em out of a database and include() em. > >Any help would be much appreciated > >Cheers > >Simon > >-- >THE WORST HOMING PIGEON > >This historic bird was released in Pembrokeshire in June 1953 and was >expected to reach its base that evening. It was returned by post, dead, >in a cardboard box eleven years later from Brazil. > -- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures" > > >-- >PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >