Re: php parsing and db content

On Wed, May 10, 2006 9:32 pm, Schalk wrote: > I have the following problem. I load certain links and breadcrumbs > from > the database into a external .php file which I include on various > pages > within the site. Due to this I have defined a constant '_root' and > precede all links with this to ensure that the links will work no > matter > from where inside the site structure they are called. > > My problem is this, when I load these links from the database into the > external .php file and the load the page that includes this, the line > <?php echo _root ?> is not parsed and shows up in the links, for > example: > > /our_work/<?php echo _root ?>/our_work/index.php when it should be > /site_root/our_work/index.php > > How can I ensure that these calls to <?php echo _root ?> are parsed > before sent to the browser? You probably should have gotten that parsed before it got INTO the database. If that's truly impossible, http://php.net/eval will do it -- But you want to avoid eval as a General Principle for various reasons. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm