Re: Recursive PHP tag resolution

Isn't that just an eval() ? On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, John Gunther (Bucks vs Bytes Inc) wrote: > I've used recursive text expansion to great advantage in many contexts > over the years, and I'd like to ask if there's any way to make this > happen in PHP. Recursive token resolution (RTR) can greatly simplify > programming logic. With RTR, text generated by, for example, a PHP echo > statement, would in turn be processed by PHP as though it were there > from the outset. If that newly generated text contained PHP tags and > code, their evaluation would affect the resulting page. Here's a trivial > example: > > <?php > phpinfo(); > echo "<?php phpinfo();?>" > ?> > > If RTR worked in PHP, this code would generate a page of two successive > PHPINFO displays, but in reality it doesn't. > > Is there a technique for doing RTR in PHP, and if not, has the issue > been considered and discussed? My searches for mention of this topic > have all been unsuccessful. > > If anyone is interested in hearing more about the benefits, I'd be happy > to start a thread in this or another group. > > Incidentally, if there's a better group for this post, I'd appreciate > being told what it is. > > Thank you. > > >