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How can I store PHP code in a database and then run that code from a mysql_query() call?

Jul 2nd, 2000 15:17
Gijsbert te Riet, Todd Hammer, Onno Benschop,

I don't know if you realy want to do this, but here is an example.

You can execute code which is stored within a string by parsing that 
string to the function eval(). So if i have a string like this:

<?php
$a=" echo (\"this is an echo function\"); ";
?>

and i want to execute the code within $a, i have to do:

<?php
eval($a);
?>

which prints "this is an echo function".

So, in your case, you can assign your code to a string (like $a) and 
just store it in your database like a normal string.
When your retrieve that string, you can parse it to eval() which 
executes the code.