echoing PHP code from a database?

[Sugapablo]

I have the following data in a MySQL database:
<a href="<?php echo $server; ?>Sugapablo-Stick_It_To_The_Man.mp3"

let's call it $row[0].

when I echo $row[0], the php code is shown as opposed to the value of
$server.

How can I get the value of $server to appear? str_replace?

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[Peter Strömberg]

Sugapablo <ru********@sugapablo.com> wrote in
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I have the following data in a MySQL database:
<a href="<?php echo $server; ?>Sugapablo-Stick_It_To_The_Man.mp3"

let's call it $row[0].

when I echo $row[0], the php code is shown as opposed to the value of
$server.

How can I get the value of $server to appear? str_replace?

eval

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[Randell D.]

"Sugapablo" <ru********@sugapablo.com> wrote in message
news:vm************@corp.supernews.com...

I have the following data in a MySQL database:
<a href="<?php echo $server; ?>Sugapablo-Stick_It_To_The_Man.mp3"

let's call it $row[0].

when I echo $row[0], the php code is shown as opposed to the value of
$server.

How can I get the value of $server to appear? str_replace?

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have you made sure your data is safe? If the data is not safe and you
execute it you leave yourself wide open for problems... However... if I make
the assumption that your data is safe and you want to execute/evaluate the
contents of $row[0] as if it were a real function you could try something
like this:

<?
$row[0];
?>

or

<?
$commandString=$row[0];
$commandString;
?>

That should do it... if not, you might need to use html_entity_decode, for
example:

<?
$commandString=html_entity_decode($row[0]);
$commandString;
?>

[Sugapablo]

I tried eval, and I tried a couple of other things, noe worked well enough.

I found the best to be a simple str_replace() function.

I just wanted other opinions to see if something would work better.

Thanks for the help. :)
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