Re: problem with eval()

> I have an 'application' which parses a given file, > which contains HTML & PHP3. For the HTML lines the > application writes the line to Dest_File. > For the PHP3 lines it's suppossed to interpret these > using the eval() statement, and depending on the PHP3 > different text would be written out to the Dest_File. > except that doesn't work. > > here's my code > > (the contents of $complete_code has been read from > SRC_FILE) > > $complete_code='if ($value == $today) echo "Hello > World";'; > $temp_string = addslashes($complete_code); > eval("\new_string=\"$complete_code\";"); > > The value of $new_string is then: > > if (1 == 1) echo "Hello World"; > > instead of "Hello World" or "" > > any help on this would be very much appreciated. The behaviour you see makes perfect sense to me. Expand what you are feeding eval() yourself: (I assume missing the $ in front of new_string was just a typo) $new_string = "if ($value == $today) echo \"Hello World\";" You probably want something along the lines of: $complete_code = '($value == $today) ? "Hello World" : ""'; and then eval("\$new_string = \"$complete_code\";); -Rasmus