How to execute text as PHP

Question

I have a problem, I want to grab text and execute text as PHP, but how do I do this? For example I have this code in a .txt file:

$tweetcpitems->post('statuses/update', array('status' => wordFilter("The item Blue has             been released on Club Penguin.")));
$tweetcpitems->post('statuses/update', array('status' => wordFilter("The item Green has been     released on Club Penguin.")));

Now the problem is that I grabbed this text and I want to execute it as a PHP script, how do I do this? Please help!

Answer 1

eval(file_get_contents('yourfile.txt'));

BE CAREFUL!

http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php

http://php.net/manual/en/function.eval.php

Answer 2

You can run both text and eval from the same script but like previously mentioned. Security must be really tight. Nevertheless, the eval funtion is really powerful if you use it properly. Try the code below.

$b = 123;
$a = "hello <?php echo 'meeeee'; ?>. I just passed $b from the mother script. Now I will pass a value back to the mother script" . '<?php $c; $c = 1 + 8; ?>' .
     "I was call within a function, therefore my variable can't passed to the global script. Nonetheless, let try something globally" .
     "<?php 
        global \$d;
        \$d = 'I am now a global var. Take care though, don\\'t let anyone edit your file' ;
      ";

function parseTxtAsCode($invalue){
    if( !is_string($invalue) ) return false;
    eval('?>' . $invalue);
    echo "\n\n\n\n Can't believe I got this from my child: $c \n";
}

parseTxtAsCode($a);
echo "\n\n\n I am global and this is what I got from the eval function: $d";