PHP Issue! what is a function for...
 

I'm trying to submit a couple textareas which contain actual php coding text as content, to a mysql table. The problem is... is mysql errors when I submit it because it tries to actually execute the php coding... while all I want to do is just store the coding in a table...

I know there has to be some type of function I can run the textarea variables through first that will temporarily render the coding so that php won't try to execute it, anyone know what it is?

Thanks

encode the variables before they go in... decode after they're out

and i think the eval() function will be useful

http://www.php.net/eval

so I "encode" the variables first with eval?

ie:

$php_coding = eval($_POST['php_coding');

$query = "INSERT INTO table (php_coding) VALUES ($php_coding)";

?