echoing PHP code from a database?

[Sugapablo]

I have the following data in a MySQL database:
<a href="<?php echo $server; ?>Sugapablo-Stick_It_To_The _Man.mp3"

let's call it $row[0].

when I echo $row[0], the php code is shown as opposed to the value of
$server.

How can I get the value of $server to appear? str_replace?

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[Peter Strömberg]

Re: echoing PHP code from a database?

Sugapablo <russREMOVE@sug apablo.com> wrote in
news:vmm3dmgm3a em2a@corp.super news.com:
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> I have the following data in a MySQL database:
> <a href="<?php echo $server; ?>Sugapablo-Stick_It_To_The _Man.mp3"
>
> let's call it $row[0].
>
> when I echo $row[0], the php code is shown as opposed to the value of
> $server.
>
> How can I get the value of $server to appear? str_replace?
>[/color]

eval

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[Randell D.]

Re: echoing PHP code from a database?


"Sugapablo" <russREMOVE@sug apablo.com> wrote in message
news:vmm3dmgm3a em2a@corp.super news.com...[color=blue]
> I have the following data in a MySQL database:
> <a href="<?php echo $server; ?>Sugapablo-Stick_It_To_The _Man.mp3"
>
> let's call it $row[0].
>
> when I echo $row[0], the php code is shown as opposed to the value of
> $server.
>
> How can I get the value of $server to appear? str_replace?
>
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> Sugapablo
> ------------------------------------
> http://www.sugapablo.com <--music
> http://www.sugapablo.net <--personal
>[/color]

have you made sure your data is safe? If the data is not safe and you
execute it you leave yourself wide open for problems... However... if I make
the assumption that your data is safe and you want to execute/evaluate the
contents of $row[0] as if it were a real function you could try something
like this:

<?
$row[0];
?>

or

<?
$commandString= $row[0];
$commandString;
?>

That should do it... if not, you might need to use html_entity_dec ode, for
example:

<?
$commandString= html_entity_dec ode($row[0]);
$commandString;
?>

[Sugapablo]

Re: echoing PHP code from a database?

I tried eval, and I tried a couple of other things, noe worked well enough.

I found the best to be a simple str_replace() function.

I just wanted other opinions to see if something would work better.

Thanks for the help. :)


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