great, thanks.  So if it's just text, eval won't do anything?

On 9/20/06, Christopher Weldon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

blackwater dev wrote:
> First, the example I have is not the real situation, just an example so
I
> don't want to get into why are you doing it like that, etc.  Just want
to
> see if it's possible.
>
> Basically, I want to store stuff in a text field in a db like this
"johns
> name is ucfirst('john adams') ".
>
> When I cycle through that row for output in my php script, I want it to
not
> see ucfirst as text but as the php function and run it....how is the
> possible?
>
> Thanks.
>

$db_query = mysql_query("select command from table");
if ($db_query && mysql_num_rows($db_query) > 0) {
   while ($array = mysql_fetch_array($db_query)) {
     eval($array['command']);
   }
}

eval() is your solution.

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