PHP in Wordpress Posts - Is this okay?

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Published on 2010-05-24T19:44:39Z Indexed on 2010/05/24 19:51 UTC
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I've been working with some long lists of information and I've come up with a good way to post it in various formats on my wordpress blog posts.

I installed the exec-PHP plugin, which allows you to run php in posts. I then created a new table (NEWTABLE) in my wordpress database and filled that table with names, scores, and other stuff.

I was then able to use some pretty simple code to display the information in a wordpress post. Below is an example, but you could really do whatever you wanted. My question is - is there a problem with doing this? with security? or memory? I could just type out all the information in each post, but this is really much nicer. Any thoughts are appreciated.

<?php
$theResult = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM NEWTABLE WHERE Score < 100  ORDER BY LastName");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($theResult))
  {
  echo $row['FirstName'];
  echo " " . $row['LastName'];
  echo " " . $row['Score'];
  echo "<br />";
  }

?> 

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