my first php code

qnc

hi guys and gals,

I have just swallowed Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL, 3rd ed. by Kevin Yank and am half way through Larry Ullman's PHP and mySQL for dynamic web sites i got a little brave and tried to do some code myself as expected it did not work

I got
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ECHO, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/qncqnc/public_html/testbed/firstphp/index.php on line 10

when I posted it on my site

I tried using the include files style of writing as It is easier to track and change code apparently i will be trying object stuff but I thought I would get a start here

ok here is the monster long code where did I go wrong?

first the index page that calls the incude pages and is what people will see it is for an embeded movie page that can be seen in raw html at http://qnctv.com/beth

<?php
// set the title and end XHTML header
// page requires head, embed and footer.incs

$page_title='movie test'; 
include('./head.inc.php'); ?>

<script type="text/javascript">
function go(form) 
{
location=form.selectmenu.value
}
</script>


<style type="text/css">
body {font-family: times new roman; text-align:center;}
a {text-decoration:none;}
img {border:none;}
a:active {color: green;} 
a:hover {color: CCFFFF; font-style: bold;}  

h1 {font-size: 30pt; font-style: bold;}
h2 {font-size: 20pt;}
h3 {font-size: 10pt;}
h4 {font-size: 8pt;}
h6 {font-size: 9pt;}
</style>

<?php
echo "</head>"; //end

//start body section
echo "<body link=99ccff vlink=purple  bgcolor=#140f57 text=FFCC66>"; //end

//movie name, author and URL needed
$_movie_name='Beth'; //end
$_Authour='Beth'; //end
$_movie_URL='http://qnctv.com/beth/beth.wmv'; //end

//set introduction
echo "<h1>$_movie_name</h1>"; //end

//embeding the movie
include('./embed.inc.php'); //end

echo "<h6>by $_Authour</h6>"; //end

// a few spaces for style
echo "<br><br><br>"; //end

//navigation bar and legals
inculde('./footer.inc.php'); //end

//close the page
echo "</body> </html>"; //end
?>

now the include files

head.inc.php

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>

<?php echo $page_title: ?>

</title>

embed.inc.php

<object id='mediaPlayer' width="450" height="309" 
      classid='CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95' 
      codebase='http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701'
      standby='Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components...' type='application/x-oleobject'>

<?php echo "<param name='fileName' value="$_movie_URL">"; 
// setting value URL of movie ?>

        <param name='animationatStart' value='true'>
        <param name='transparentatStart' value='true'>
        <param name='autoStart' value="true">
        <param name='showControls' value="true">
        <param name="ShowStatusBar" value="true">
        <param name='loop' value="0">

<?php echo "<embed type='application/x-mplayer2' 
	    pluginspage='http://microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/download/'
            src="$_movie_URL"    //the actual movie location
            width="450" 
            height="309"
            autostart="1" 
            displaysize='4' 
            autosize='0'
            bgcolor='#140f57' 
            showcontrols="1" 
            showtracker='0'
	    ShowStatusBar='1'
            showdisplay='0' 
            videoborder3d='0'  

            designtimesp='5311'
            loop="0"> </embed> "; // actual embeding of $_movie_URL ?>

</object>

footer.inc.php just a navigation bar that I use nothing special at the moment

<table align="center">
<tr>
<td align="center">
<a href="http://www.qnctv.com/showsindex.htm"><h6>ENTERTAINMENT&nbsp;</h6></a>
</td>

<td align="center">&nbsp;</td>
<td align="center">&nbsp;</td>
<td align="center">
<a href="http://www.qnctv.com/"><img src="http://www.qnctv.com/qnctv.gif" height="60"></a> 
</td>

<td align="center">&nbsp;</td>
<td align="center">&nbsp;</td>

<td align="center">
<a href="http://www.qnctv.com/conindex.htm"><h6 >&nbsp;CONCEPTS</a></h6 >
</td> 

</tr>

<tr>
<td align="center">&nbsp;</td>
<td align="center">&nbsp;</td>
<td align="center"><a href="http://www.qnctv.com/advice"><h6>?</h6></a>
</td>

<td align="center">
<form align="center">
<select name="selectmenu" onchange="go(this.form)">
<option value=""><H6>DEBATES</H6></option>
<option value="">--------</option>
<option value="http://qnctv.com/forum/"><H6>FORUMS</H6></option>
<option value="">--------</option>
<option value="http://qnctv.com/forum"><H6>Index</H6></option>
<option value="http://qnctv.com/forum/index.php?act=Search&f="><H6>Search</H6></option>
  </select>
</form>
</td>

<td align="center">
<a href="mailto:qnc@qnctv.com"><h6>@</h6></a>
<td align="center">&nbsp;</td>
<td align="center">&nbsp;</td>
</td>
</tr>



</table>

<div id="footer" align="center">
Copyright 2002 – 
[code=php]
<?php echo "$_date('y')" "Qnctv.com ltd" "\ +" "$_Authour"\.; 
//just a simple php generated copyright message for the authors and myself?>

That it thanks for getting to this point any help you can give is much appreciated.

qnc

p.s. have done some revisions of the code now the erroe message is

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/qncqnc/public_html/testbed/firstphp/embed.inc.php on line 6

How do you echo html properly especially tags with "" in them?

Also how do you include .js and .css

sidney

echo "<param name='fileName' value="$_movie_URL">";

try

echo '<param name="fileName" value="$_movie_URL">';

 echo "<param name=\"fileName\" value=\"$_movie_URL\">";

the \ is an escape character

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.echo.php

theres no secret to echoing html javascript or css the output to browser just has to be valid

jntcomputers

When echoing html within php put a backslash in front of the quotes, i.e. \"

Hope this helps...

qnc

resolved most of the problems but this still is not working

 classid='CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95'

codebase='http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.
cab#Version=5,1,52,701'

  standby='Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components...'

type='application/x-oleobject'>

// for php sections make sure all echoed characters are escaped
// setting value URL of movie
echo '<param name='fileName' value="$_movie_URL">';

    <param name='animationatStart' value='true'>

    <param name='transparentatStart' value='true'>

    <param name='autoStart' value="true">

    <param name='showControls' value="true">

    <param name="ShowStatusBar" value="true">

    <param name='loop' value="0">

   echo '<embed type='application/x-mplayer2'

     pluginspage='http://microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/download/'

       src="$_movie_URL" //the actual movie location

       width="450"

       height="309"

       autostart="1"

       displaysize='4'

       autosize='0'

       bgcolor='#140f57'

       showcontrols="1"

       showtracker='0'

      ShowStatusBar='1'

       showdisplay='0'

       videoborder3d='0'

       designtimesp='5311'

       loop="0">
       </embed>

</object>';

and I think that this eror message is from the footer section
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: inculde() in /home/qncqnc/public_html/testbed/firstphp/index.php on line 68

//just a simple php generated copyright message for the authors and myself?>

jntcomputers

Only escape the html quotes, not the php code. So I thin the thing to do is to not escape the last part...

The error is because include is mispelled!

qnc

got it working in the end cheers learned alot!!