Posted by Jasper Bryant-Greene on 10/31/05 04:19

On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 21:16 -0500, John Taylor-Johnston wrote:
> I need to generate embedded php within in a mysql record. $contents is
> the actual contents of that record.
>
> <?php
> $contents = "<div class=\"indent\" style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family:
> arial,helvetica; font-weight: bold;\">About the Project</div>
> <?php echo \"hello world\"; ?>";
> echo eval($contents);
> ?>
>
> I get this error:
> Parse error: parse error in /var/www/html2/test.php(4) : eval()'d code
> on line 1
>
> If I just echo $contents, my browser spits out:
>
> <div class="indent" style="font-size: 16px; font-family:
> arial,helvetica; font-weight: bold;">About the Project</div>
> <?php echo "hello world"; ?>
>
> What's wrong? eval() is the correct thing to do, I thought?
>

eval() expects PHP code, not HTML with embedded PHP code. Try this
(untested):

eval( " ?> $contents <?php " );

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