"Robert Gormley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hi all, > > I have a MySQL db which contains table test, field test... one of the > entries is > > "<? external($url, $text); ?>" > > Where external() is a function i've written which outputs simple text. > > I want to be able to put calls to this function into the database, and have > them parsed on rendering... With the above example, the raw code is just > spat to the browser, and doesn't hit the interpreter. Either trim the string and eval(), or change the database to store just the contents of $url and $text and do the call to external() in your PHP code. Personally, I think the second is preferable (by the principle of orthogonality ;-). -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]