how to treat TEXT from mysql as a PHP code

[renoor]

hello,

this is my first post and also first problem I was unable to find through google...

 

I need a page that can generate it's content completely dynamically, so in database i have objects like image, text, gallery and one special "custom" object - this should be any code in PHP that i want to execute during page generation.

So basically, I need something like this:

 

$query="SELECT * FROM subcat WHERE cat = $cat";
$result=mysql_query($query);
if (mysql_numrows($result) > 0)
    $i=0;
    while ($i < $num) {
        if (mysql_result($result,$i,"type") == "custom")
            include (mysql_result($result,$i,"content));
    }

 

of course, the 'include' statement is wrong because i'm not supplying a filename with some content, but a content itself.

a workaround should be to create a temporary file and include it, but I think it is an ugly solution...please can you help me with this?

 

[kenrbnsn]

You probably want to look at the eval() function.

 

Be forewarned that this function can be very dangerous when used with data that comes from an external source.

 

Ken

[renoor]

thank you very much!

the "custom" content will come only from the admin of the site, so no worries ;o)