How to insert a php code snippet in mysql database

Question

I have a php code snippet like below :

function is_ancestor_of( $page_name = null, $post ) {

if(is_null($page_name))
return false;

// does         


        

Answer 1

You will need to use mysql_real_escape_string() to escape the php code so it does not throw an error when inserting. Then you run an eval() on the statement, if you want it to execute. If you have a mixed html and php stored in the database you would call eval like so

 eval('?>'.$dbresult.'

Just make sure you stripslashes() on the database result