>I have a BLOB field in a MySQL database that I want
>to parse into my page using PHP.
>For instance, in this field might be the following:
>
><? echo "test"; ?>
>
>So when I access this field in PHP I want it to display "test".
>
>Is this possible?
Yeah. That's called "eval" (short for 'evaluate')
Basically you can make PHP execute arbitrary chunks of more PHP code.
NOTE: Letting web-surfers insert PHP code into your database to be
evaluated later is really high on the Bad Idea list... Actually, doing this
on a web-site where you're not pretty sure the database itself is pretty
secure from not only surfers but also other potentially malicious co-users
on the same box... It's just too easy for them to be able to put mean code
in your database...
http://php.net/eval
I *think* it goes like this:
<?php
$php = 'echo "Hi";';
eval($php);
?>
Never used it myself...
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