moagrius Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 i'm creating a small app for someone who wants to control the content of each page from a DB. effectively it'd be a template file with header, footer, etc all pre-built, and the content area supplied from a TEXT field in a MySQL table - basically the same idea wordpress uses. this is all fine, but a couple pages would require some php - e.g., a list of events or users or articles, whatever, that are managed in different tables. i can do this with eval - something like: function render_content($string) { ob_start(); eval("?>$string<?php "); $returns = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); return $returns; } but i wonder if there's a better way. i can probably limit whatever code needs to be executed in include files, so i thought maybe include some arbitrary tag and use regexp to parse it out... maybe modeled after a conditional comment, e.g., <!--[include]some-file.inc.php--> // or even... <include>some-file.inc.php</include> but, again, not thrilled with the approach, and wondered if anyone had a better idea. i should probably mention that it's not going to be a "content or include" setup - it probably won't be one or the other, exclusively, and is likely to be a mix on those pages that require it - the php might need to appear before, after, or in the middle of whatever arbitrary markup the user happens to supply, e.g. <h1>This is a list of stuff</h1> <p>Some explanation lorem ipsum dolor sit ahmet.</p> <?php include('some-file.inc.php'); ?> <em>But this caveat applies to the above list.</em> <div> Something totally unrelated. <img src="pic.jpg" /> </div> not sure I explained that very well, but hopefully the concept comes across. TYIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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