Re: Turning a string into a condition

On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 15:38 -0500, Marc Guay wrote: > > It sounds like you have a string "$x < $y" in the database that you then > > replace into a string "4 < 5" which you want to test a conditional on. If > > this is the case, why are you storing conditionals in the database? > > The user will be able to construct their own query strings, it's > complicated but necessary. The issue I'm dealing with, though, is > this: > > $condition = "4 < 5"; > if ($condition){ > //do stuff > } > You were on the right lines with the eval: $condition = "return 4 < 5;"; if (eval($condition)) { //do stuff } I just added the return statement and the semicolon, because the error was complaining about it not being a proper PHP statement basically. -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk