bump. any thoughts on running code stored in the db through the web2py interpreter?
On Dec 23, 3:17 pm, mattynoce <[email protected]> wrote: > hi all. i know this doesn't sound like a superb idea, but i may have > to do something like it. > > i have data coming from the db and being displayed to the user as > instructions. "do this," "go there," etc. > > i'd like to have that data executed in the environment, so i could say > "do this, {{=user.first_name}}." but when i say > {{=XML(instruction.step)}} it spits out the raw text but doesn't > execute it. > > this only happens for db info that we put in, no user data. is there a > way to run it through the web2py interpreter before displaying it to > the user? > > thanks, and happy holidays. > > matt
