Working with a table from inside a databse row

I have a simple site layout. Everything is being pulled from a
database in such fashion that Page 1 of the site is referenced by
'pagename.php/?id=1', Page 2 is referenced by 'pagename.php/?id=2', and
so forth. In other words, I have only one page 'pagename.php' with a
couple of conditional statements and a navigation bar as a form using
method "get".

I need the middle content part on page 'pagename.php/?id=3' to pull
some information from a completely separate table. Is there a way to
accomplish that without resorting to

if ($_GET[id] = 3) {
// do a completely separate page layout with data pulled by the
needed page
}

I don't want to hardcode the condition because a user may delete row
where id=3.

Basically, is there a way to run a database query from inside a
database row while in phpMyAdmin?

You can simply add a block of PHP code to the page content in the DB
and have it parsed by eval().

PS: Don't kill me for suggesting eval(). It's the most simple and
flexible solution here.

Thank you for replying. Could you be more specific, please?

Again, it goes something like this:

Table structure
tbl_siteLayout (ID, pageName, pageLeftContent, pageMiddleContent,
pageRightContent)

The navigation bar is pulling ID, creates 'pagename.php/?id=' links,
and the 'pagename.php' uses $_GET to run a query where id = $_GET[id]
to display all content.

One of those pages referenced by id=3 needs to contain a list of
products pulled out of tbl_Products (productID, productName,
productDesc, productPrice).

Are you suggesting INSERTing entire tbl_Products code directly into the
'tbl_siteLayout.pageMiddleContent' field?

Thanks.

> Are you suggesting INSERTing entire tbl_Products code directly into the
> 'tbl_siteLayout.pageMiddleContent' field?

No, just store sth. like
-----
<ul>
<?php
// connect to mysql, query and parse result
?>
</ul>
-----
in the database and instead of printing the contents pass them to
eval():
-----
<?php
// fetch $content from mysql
eval($content);
?>
-----
Since you don't have access to variables as you would have with
include(), you have to connect to mySQL in the eval'ed code separately.

Cheers, milahu

Thanks!

I didn't realize I had to jump through this little hoop:

eval ("?>" . $row['centercontent'] . "<?php ");

Why do you have to use those tags in this case? (?>, <?)

Eval() should be called Evil().

maxvalery@gmail.com wrote:
> Why do you have to use those tags in this case? (?>, <?)

eval() parses in `PHP-mode', so you have to close and re-open the PHP
tags when passing HTML contents to it.

Cheers