Re: Generating executable code

On 8/13/07, Chris Boget <chris.boget@wild.net> wrote: > Currently, I have an XML file that I load in, parse manually and iterate > through the nodes to create objects, etc, using the node values as > parameters. This works all well and fine but is a little resource > intensive. > > Now, I can create a XSL template to transform the XML file and output > all the PHP code that we are doing manually. However, when the > transformation occurs, the result is pretty much just a string as far as > PHP is concerned; it isn't executable PHP code. > > I know I can output the result to a temporary file then include it or I > can pass the result to eval() to execute the code, but neither is ideal. > Is there another way I can do what I need? Is there a way to 'include' > (for the lack of a better term) the result of the XSL transformation > such that PHP processes it as it would any other source code? > > thnx, > Chris > Well, that's exactly what eval does, why isn't it ideal for you? Tijnema -- Vote for PHP Color Coding in Gmail! -> http://gpcc.tijnema.info