php values in CMS content?

Is there a way to allow dynamic content in Power CMS content? It seems that there are library pages and disable php values in stored content.

For instance, I am trying to put this code within some CMS content:

<?php if (($goldPrice)!='') { ?>
            $<strong><?php echo $goldPrice; ?></strong> - <?php echo($Gold->getColumnVal("date")); ?><br />
            <?php }
			else {
				echo 'N/A';
			} ?>

You can't embed php code directly. I can help with a solution to that problem to allow it in a premier support ticket.

Did you come up with a solution for this you could share, or will I need a premier support ticket to do this also?

Not too sure as that was Jan 2016 :-)

Jasons back? Welcome back.

Thanks for the quick reply Steve. Unfortunately no, Jason (Byrnes) isn't back. I'm just an average user named Jason. lol

Different Jason ;)

I think I had him use a placeholder in his code like: [goldprice] and then showed him how to use str_replace() to replace the placeholder with the php code on the page itself.

Original Ray ;)

Thanks!
I'm doing this right now and it's working:

<?php

$dateMonth = date('M');

$dateDay = date('j');

$original = array("[dateMonth]", "[dateDay]");

$new = array($dateMonth, $dateDay);

?>

<?php echo str_replace($original, $new, WA_getCMSContent($database_PowerCMSConnection, $PowerCMSConnection, 'Home', 'Calendar')); ?>

I'd really like to have a more dynamic solution though. I tried something like this where I replaced the php open and close tags in the database with "[{[{" and "]}]}". Then I did this:

<?php

$original = array("[{[{", "]}]}");

$new = array("<?php", "?>");

?>

<?php echo str_replace($original, $new, WA_getCMSContent($database_PowerCMSConnection, $PowerCMSConnection, 'Home', 'Calendar')); ?>

No luck though. Am I close to something here, or chasing the white rabbit?

It is more complex than that.

You could probably pull it off using the functions:

preg_match();
to find the php references and save them into an array.

and then:
eval()
to execute the php code and get the result

Then finally str_replace() to replace it.

It is worth noting that you will want to disable inline editing with either technique (yours or the more complex one) since any dynamic values would end up being replaced with their values as soon as the inline edits were saved.

I have gotten around this limitation to allow any dynamic value, but the solution becomes pretty complex. It involves using code like this for the placeholder:

<span class="php_replace" rel="$variablename">sample value</span>

Then I search through the code for anything with the "php_replace" class using preg_match() and when I replace it I only update the "sample value" portion and leave the rest of the tag intact. This way you can still use the inline editor, but if you replace the dynamic portion your edits are ignored and the value stays dynamic since you wouldn't ever actually remove the <span> and its class while editing.