great, thanks. So if it's just text, eval won't do anything? On 9/20/06, Christopher Weldon <cweldon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- Christopher Weldon, ZCE President & CEO Cerberus Interactive, Inc. cweldon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 979.739.5874