[xdebug-general] Re: eval seems to always give "error evaluating code"

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Ben Dilts wrote:

> Unless I'm mistaken (that's happened once before), if I simply do eval("echo
> 'hello';") in PHP, it executes that code and sends the string 'hello' to the
> HTTP response. I think I must be misreading the documentation, but the
> format is given as this:
>
> eval -i transaction_id -- {DATA}

Section 6 says that all data should be base64 encoded, which means you
should call eval like this:

eval -i 42 -- ZWNobyAnaGVsbG8nOw==

where "ZWNobyAnaGVsbG8nOw==" is

echo 'hello';

encoded with base64.

The reason for this is that you need to be able to send all kinds of
binary data.

regards,
Derick

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