codeigniter is not parsing html from db for php tags...?

[eluser]Colin McCubbin[/eluser]
I'm new to codeIgniter and an struggling with this.. :-S

If I put some php code in <?php...?> tags in amongst the html in a view file, codeigniter parses and acts on the php before sending the page to the browser with no problem.

But if I put that same block of mixed html and php in a database field and then get codeigniter to get it from the db, place it in a variable and output it, the php is not parsed and just shows up as text..

EG. I load the html helper in my controller, and in my view.php file have

Code:

<?php echo img('system/application/pics/Aragon.jpg');?>

The image shows up fine in the browser.

If however I place the same line in my db field and get that and output it, it jus appear as a text string... So I get no image in the page, and if I 'view source' I see the php tags in the source..

What am I doing wrong here? Do I have to pass the db contents back into the php parser somehow? I'd have thought that codeigniter would have done that..

Thanks!