[wp-hackers] Using eval within Wordpress for a function mixed with html

DD32 wordpress at dd32.id.au
Tue Dec 2 00:31:36 GMT 2008


Not having tested it, But going off what you originally posted:

function getStringFromFile($file) {
     $s = file_get_contents($file);
     eval('return ' . $s);
}
You need to combine the strings, not to insert one string inside the other  
i believe.


On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:25:10 +1100, Chris <chris.hearn01 at ntlworld.com>  
wrote:

> good point on sprintf() - but assumes that I know the link will always
> have the bloginfo() as the variable.
>  I was trying to generalise it so that, for several records in a text
> file, it would do the whole thing!
> Thanks for suggestion
> Does anyone know hwo to combine php functions and html using eval?? I
> would still like to know.
> Chris
>
>
>
>
> Jason Webster wrote:
>> Why don't you just use sprintf?
>>
>> $string = '<a rel="external nofollow" href="%s/juniors/mirror"><img
>> src="/oldsite/images/junior/.thumbs/.mirror.jpg" alt="mirror.jpg"
>> title="mirror.jpg" width="95%" /></a> <hr />';
>>
>> $string = sprintf($string, get_bloginfo('wpurl'));
>>
>> Done!
>>
>>
>>
>> Chris wrote:
>>> Yes, quite right Otto,
>>> I simplified it for the post and inadvertantly altered it in
>>> theprocess - I am indeed returning $theresult in the actual code I am
>>> trying out.
>>>
>>> The key thing is how to eval() a mixture of php and html to get same
>>> result as if it was put straight into a php page.
>>> I saw on php lots of discussion of eval(), and different ideas, but
>>> also comments that none of them worked properly, so thought would ask
>>> on the hackers list.
>>>
>>> just to re-iterate: this following type of code works straight in a
>>> page,
>>> <a rel="external nofollow"
>>> href="'.get_bloginfo('wpurl').'/juniors/mirror"><img
>>> src="/oldsite/images/junior/.thumbs/.mirror.jpg" alt="mirror.jpg"
>>> title="mirror.jpg" width="95%" /></a> <hr />
>>>
>>> so what should it be so that I can pull it in from a text file, or a
>>> database,  and then eval() it will give same result?
>>> Thanks
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> Otto wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Chris <chris.hearn01 at ntlworld.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> How to use eval() to get the proper result from this type of thing:
>>>>> Assuming I read the above fragment from a text file into variable $s
>>>>>
>>>>> function myfunc($s)
>>>>> eval('\$theresult= \$s;')
>>>>> return $s;
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Shouldn't you be returning $theresult?
>>>>
>>>> -Otto
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