Some of you may be annoyed with this question, and claim it's unsafe blah blah. I want to be able to put php into the database and run it. I have to do this because I store page layouts in the database and each our different for each other, however in some cases I want to use dynamic content for some of the pages. assume $query_from_db is the string returned from the database. php should only eval() the code in between <?php and ?> $query_from_db = '<div> <?php //php to run function dosomething() { //bleh } ?> </div> '; php echo eval($query_from_db);