PHP How To Display HTML+PHP Code Stored in MySQL - php

Question

I am trying to store HTML and PHP in a MySQL text field and display it in PHP.
When it displays on site it renders as commented out tags:
<!--?php
if(isset($sp_msg) && $sp_msg != ''){
print '<div-->
This of course screws the whole page up.
How am I supposed to go about displaying this data correctly? I would like to eventually add this to a full functioning CMS so I would like to understand how to do this correctly.
page.php
<?php
require_once('library/autoload.php');
$pid = $_REQUEST['id'];
$page = $ct->get_page_info($pid);
$sp_msg = $page['special_msg'];
require_once('h.php');
?>
<div id="row">
<?php
print $page['page_content'];
?>
</div>
<?php
require_once('f.php');
?>
'page_content' stored in mysql as text
<h3>MY HEADER TEXT</h3>
<?php
if(isset($sp_msg) && $sp_msg != ''){
print '<div>'.$sp_msg.'</div>';
}
?>
<hr>
<p>paragraph text</p>

Answer 1

You need to eval the stored php code. When you print out the string stored in the MySQL you don't run it, you only print it.
<div id="row">
<?php
eval($page['page_content']);
?>
</div>
Warning:
I really don't recommend it. If any suspicious code can be entered into that DB it could cause really big problems. You can't check the PHP code if its not a crypto virus for example. This code will execute anything on the server.
See the PHP manual: eval