Executing php from DB output

[eluser]Michael Roper[/eluser]
Michael, you mention using eval() to parse the db content, but at what point would you do that?

In my model or my view, if I do something like the following:

Code:

//$data['content'] = $row['body']; <- thats what i usually just do
$data['content'] = eval($row['body']);

I get an error like this, even if there is no php tags in the db content:

Code:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in C:\www\application\views\main.php(43) : eval()'d code on line 1

Am I using eval() wrong here?