Viewing video in PHP CMS

I have the action to view an image

switch ($_GET['action']) {
      case "view":
	  echo '<img src = "'.$absolute.'uploads/'.$file.'"><br />';

or sound

case "listen":
	  echo '<EMBED src = "'.$absolute.'uploads/'.$file.'" autostart=true hidden=false><br />';

But not video.

How can I view video in a PHP Content Management System?

thanks in advance

here's the code I came up wirth:

case "view2":
	  echo '<A HREF="'javascript:open_window1("'$absolute.'uploads/'.$file.'" autostart=true hidden=false)'"><br />view video </a>';

but I get the following syntax error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/cailloue/public_html/FrankC10/CMS/viewer.php on line 39

Dam it won't show my javascript. Well the Javascript is a simple popup window

'<A HREF="'javascript:open_window1("'$absolute.'uploads/'.$file.'" autostart=true hidden=false)'"><br />view video </a>';

I had to break out of PHP to make my pop up work

here's the code:

case "view2":
	   ?>
      <A HREF="javascript:open_window1('uploads/<? echo "$file";?>')"><br>view video </a><?