Hrm, yup... that does what I want... thanks :) It might be a little bit 
messy... because it'll most likely be embedded in text :) I'm making a 
weblog system for myself, so the full field might be "blah blah blah <? ... 
?> blah blah" which will most likely get messy...

Ahh well...

Rob

At 11:52 PM 10/09/2001, Rick Emery wrote:
>use this PHP function:  eval()
>
>As quoted from the PHP manual: "eval() evaluates the string given in
>code_str as PHP code. Among other things, this can be useful for storing
>code in a database text field for later execution"
>
>Further info is in the manual under the Miscellaneous Functions chapter
>(XXXVIII).
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Gormley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 1:18 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [PHP-DB] Parsing of db results by PHP
>
>
>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.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Regards,
>
>Robert
>Robert Gormley
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://seabreeze.asn.au/
>
>
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