Parsing PHP code that's stored in a database.

JdS · #1 18-Aug-2002, 02:12

I am stuck with trying to parse PHP codes that are stored together with text in a database. For example, 1 column in my db stores text like this:

Code:

This is just text. &lt;?php echo &quot; This WAS PHP. &quot;; ?&gt;This is text again.

Anybody know how I can get the PHP above to work when i retrieve the data?

Garth Farley · #2 18-Aug-2002, 15:53

One link:

www.php.net

The eval() function.

Tadaa!

Garth Farley

HaigEK · #3 12-May-2004, 12:57

One more link:

us3.php.net

If the stored string has been encoded with htmlentities() it should first be decoded with html_entity_decode() before being passed to eval().

JdS · #4 13-May-2004, 09:15

Hello HaigEK,

Thank you for the suggestion but the original example string in the question was:

Code:

This is just text. <?php echo "This WAS PHP."; ?>This is text again.

When we upgraded the forum script from phpBB to vbulletin, the export script did mess up a few posts and while I fixed most of them, I seem to have missed the one on this thread, also I am sure there are others...

But thanks just the same

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Parsing PHP code that's stored in a database.

If stored string has been encoded with htmlentities()...