I know that.  Footertext prints out the footer for my site.  The bottom 
of my layout.  Also, as I said, I even tried printing $footertext. 
 Thanks for trying to help, though.

Miguel Cruz wrote:

>I don't know what $footertext looks like, but I can tell you that just 
>eval()ing a chunk of text won't have any apparent effect. 
>
>When you eval() code in a string, that code has to either return() 
>something, or have direct effects on its own (such as calling functions or 
>setting values). eval() != echo.
>
>miguel
>
>On Mon, 20 May 2002, Leif K-Brooks wrote:
>
>>  On my website, I open my header (and footer) file with fileopen and 
>>then eval() it.  I know I should include them, but I knew nothing about 
>>php when I did this.  Anyway, I'm working on "groups" for my website. 
>> They will be a kind of club.  At the top of every group page, I include 
>>a group function file.  Among those functions is one that checks if the 
>>user trying to go to the group is a member of it.  If not, it gives them 
>>an error message and exits.  It is also supposed to eval() the footer 
>>before exiting.  My code is as follows:
>>
>>    function checkmember(){
>>    global $groupid;
>>    global $userinfo;
>>    global $footertext;
>>    if($groupid != $userinfo['groupid']){
>>    print "<b>Error:</b> you're not a member of this group.";
>>    eval($footertext);
>>    exit;
>>    }
>>    return;
>>    }
>>
>>
>>The thing is, it doesn't seem to eval() the footer.  I've even tried 
>>getting $footertext out of the $GLOBALS array.  I have also tried 
>>printing $footertext to make sure it wasn't a problem with evel(). 
>> Nothing has worked.  When I did isset() on $GLOBALS['footertext'], it 
>>worked however.  Thanks to anybody who can help.
>>
>>
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