PHP function in database article

i have a site with PHP and MySQL.
I store some article in a database and show those
on my site.

Now I wan't to use a selfmade php_function in those articles stored in the database. But when I load the page it doesn't execute the function, it just says show_image('test.jpg') and not the image.

Is it possible to store those things in a database and execute them.

The function is stored in a different library file which it included in every page I load.

MarnixK,

If it just says 'showimage('test.jpg')', it sounds like PHP isn't parsing this as PHP code. You might want to check to ensure it's been wrapped in the PHP start and end tags. Even if you include() a file, you still need to wrap it in these tags.

Peace,
Jeb.

Post your code please. I would like to see the page you are storing and the function you are are trying to call.

It may be simple using eval() - or may be complex, but we first need to see the code....

Well using eval() may do the trick, but you will need to do some things to you article first. If you were to retrieve the article from the database and just use eval() on the body you'll end up with parse errors etc.. so you would need to make your article in a php structure like each line in a variable. for example

$str = "my article title\n";
$str .= "blah\n";

and do that with each line of the article and when you get to your function it would have to

$str .= "check this image out" . showimage($blah) . " neat huh";

or another way that maybe easier is to inclose that in a defined tag and use regular expressions to find them all...

[SHOWIMAGE http://www.domain.com/image.gif /]

You see what I mean?