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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '&' in ... : eval()'d code on line 1

First of all, thank you for read my first stackoverflow question!!!

I have the code below:

eval('return ('.$statement.');')

I'm creating a template engine for study purposes, so, i need that code for some conditional actions on my views.

The objective of this code is execute a statement and return the logical result.

Suppose $statement = '1 == 1'; this return true,

but, if i put $statement = 'cookie()->has('name');' this gives the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '&' in /var/www/html/exemplo.com/core/Instead/src/TemplateEngines/TemplateEngine.php(96) : eval()'d code on line 1

Note that the cookie function already exists and is accessible globally, and return 1, only 1.

Any idea?? Solutions? Thanks Again.

Solution

  • It's strange, but for some reason, $tatement = filter_var($statement, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING) is causing the error, after replace this function to strip_tags the error is gone.