Posted by Smiley on 09/26/07 08:11

I'm fooling around with using Eval and trying to manipulate a few things. I
ran into a couple of weird results. First of all, in one place I used the
following code:

$filestring = str_replace("<?", "\n<?\n", $filestring);
$filestring = str_replace("?>", "\n?>\n", $filestring);

Not a huge thing, just making things easier to read for me. But doing this
gives me an error, even when I comment those lines out. I have to remove
them completely, it seems to be interpreting the ?> and <? strangely even
when they're in quotes or commented out. Why is that?

Second thing, I'm having trouble getting eval to work with some of the code,
and I have no idea why. It grabs the code to eval from other files, and I
can't see any reason why it shouldn't work. This is the error message I'm
getting:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in
/homepages/htdocs/parrot0123/tester.php(498) : eval()'d code on line 44

I exploded the eval code and print_r'd the results, and this is what I got:

Array
(
[0] => global $monthname;
[1] => global $config;
[2] => $now = time();
[3] => $today = getdate($now);
[4] => $curmonth = $today['mon'];
[5] => $curyear = $today['year'];
[6] => // Determine whether it's a leap year
[7] => $leapyear = 0;
[8] => $remainder = $curyear % 400;
[9] => if(!$remainder)
[10] => {
[11] => $leapyear = 1;
[12] => }
[13] => else
[14] => {
[15] => $remainder = $curyear % 100;
[16] => if ($remainder)
[17] => {
[18] => $remainder = $curyear % 4;
[19] => if (!$remainder)
[20] => {
[21] => $leapyear = 1;
[22] => }
[23] => }
[24] => }
[25] => // Set the number of days per month
[26] => $mdays[1] = 31;
[27] => $mdays[2] = 28 + $leapyear;
[28] => $mdays[3] = 31;
[29] => $mdays[4] = 30;
[30] => $mdays[5] = 31;
[31] => $mdays[6] = 30;
[32] => $mdays[7] = 31;
[33] => $mdays[8] = 31;
[34] => $mdays[9] = 30;
[35] => $mdays[10] = 31;
[36] => $mdays[11] = 30;
[37] => $mdays[12] = 31;
[38] => // Calculate the day of the week that the first day of this
months falls on
[39] => $_POST['nowmonth'] = mktime(0, 0, 0, $curmonth, 1, $curyear);
[40] => $cmstamp = $_POST['nowmonth'];
[41] => $datevals = getdate($ts);
)There's no line 44, what could the problem possibly be?

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