php not activated

[John Taylor-Johnston <jt.johnston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have some html + php stored in a mysql record. But when I echo the 
contents:

$mydata->HTML="<input type="text" size="40" value="<?php
   if($searchenquiry)
   echo stripslashes(htmlspecialchars($searchenquiry));
   ?>" name="searchenquiry" />";

the php is not activated; rather I see <?php ... ?> in my html source. 
It worked before, I thought.

P.S. is there a better way to use this function?

John

--------snip---------
display();
echo $contents;

function display()
{
   global $contents, $PHP_SELF;
   $file = basename($PHP_SELF);
   include("connect.inc");
   $sql = "SELECT * FROM `".$db."`.`".$table_editor."` WHERE `Filename` 
LIKE '".$file."' LIMIT 0,1;";
   $myquery = mysql_query($sql);
   while ($mydata = mysql_fetch_object($myquery)) {
   $contents = $mydata->HTML;
   }
}

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