compiling database fields

This is the record in the database field and is stored in a snippets table

hello my name if {$contact.name} its {smarty.server.SERVER_NAME}

the snippets/contact is assigned in php but the tags are not processes,
instead they are output as straight text as...
tpl code
{section name=s loop=$snippets}
<div class="snippet">{$snippets[s].snippet}</div>
{/section}

the output is
hello my name if {$contact.name} its {smarty.server.SERVER_NAME}

How do I make smarty "compile it ", is there a quick and dirty methid
I'm missing  ??

tia

pete

Messju kindly answered this question on IRC with the {eval} function

ta
;-))))))))

pete M wrote:
> This is the record in the database field and is stored in a snippets table
>
> hello my name if {$contact.name} its {smarty.server.SERVER_NAME}
>
> the snippets/contact is assigned in php but the tags are not processes,
> instead they are output as straight text as...
> tpl code
> {section name=s loop=$snippets}
>     <div class="snippet">{$snippets[s].snippet}</div>
> {/section}
>
> the output is
> hello my name if {$contact.name} its {smarty.server.SERVER_NAME}
>
> How do I make smarty "compile it ", is there a quick and dirty methid
> I'm missing  ??
>
> tia
>
> pete