Re: eval();

eval( " ?> $contents <?php " );

However, if eval() is the answer, you're probably asking the wrong question. You should take a hard look at your code and think of a better way to do what you need to do. Back to the drawing board? It is either store my html+embedded code in a mysql record, or in an html file, which means playing with fopen. It's easier to hand tweak in phpmyadmin.

Nonetheless, even though your test code worked (thanks!) this doesn't. Sigh. if ($contents = displaynew()) eval( " ?> $contents <?php " ); function displaynew() { $file = basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); require 'connect.inc'; $sql = "SELECT HTML FROM $db.$table_editor WHERE Filename LIKE '".addslashes($file)."' LIMIT 1;"; if ($myquery = mysql_query($sql) and mysql_num_rows($myquery) > 0) {

      $mydata = mysql_fetch_array($myquery, MYSQL_NUM);
      return $mydata[0];

} return false; }