String to PHP Function

[eleljrk]

The question is simple, but the answer seems impossible.

I've been trying everything, but now I have to ask the experts..

 

Here is the problem:

global $_HEY;

$things = array($_HEY, "again, hey", ".. ..", "more..", "etc");

foreach($things as $thing) {
$count++;
$variable = $count.": ".$thing."<br />";
}

unset($count);
unset($thing);

$variable = strtoupper($variable);

return $variable;

 

Now, that is simple enough. Then everything is upside down when you read this:

- All the basic PHP above is inside a string.

 

Then I ask you for the answer:

- How can I get this PHP out from the string and run it as a function..?

 

That's the golden one!

[eleljrk]

I have to commit that I just found a function called "create_function".

Would this do what I need, can someone confirm?

[joel24]

http://php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php