[RESOLVED] How to correct "parse error" in php code

jass

The code below renders the following error message:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_DOUBLE_ARROW on line 5

Thanks for any help

<?php
$file = $_REQUEST["file"];
$farray (
'one' => 'a.wmv',
'two' => 'b.wmv',
'three' => 'c.wmv'
);
// file not (!=) null ("")
if ($file != "") {
$open = $farray[$file];
}

else {
$open = ' ';
}

Header("Content-type: video/x-ms-wmv");

echo $open;
?>

rincewind456

Line 3 has to have the array declared

$farray = array(

jass

Thank you very much for the input, rincewind456.
Would appreciate if you could let me know if there's anything wrong with the array name :

request.php?file=one

Weedpacket

Er, no.... Why, should there be?

jass

Weedpacket wrote:
Er, no.... Why, should there be?

I thought something is wrong because the wmv is not playing.
I wonder what's wrong then? 😕

Appreciate if someone could help.

bradgrafelman

Probably because you never read and output the contents of the file... just the file's name:

echo $open;

Perhaps a function like [man]readfile/man would help... though this reads the file to memory and then outputs, so it could possibly save memory if you do something like:

$fp = fopen('filename.wmv', 'r');
if($fp) {
    while(!feof($fp)) {
        echo fgets($fp, 4096);
    }
}
fclose($fp);

jass

Thanks a lot for your input.
I understand that readfile and fpassthru are about 55% slower than doing a loop with "feof/echo fread" (http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:gMviewrqIKAJ:www.php3.de/fpassthru+fread+%22wmv%22&hl=en&gl=au&ct=clnk&cd=13. )

Does anyone has any idea how to use fread to echo?

bradgrafelman

My second coding snippet pretty much does that... just replace fgets() with fread().

jass

bradgrafelman wrote:

...

$fp = fopen('filename.wmv', 'r');
if($fp) {
    while(!feof($fp)) {
        echo fgets($fp, 4096);
    }
}
fclose($fp);

Thank you very much for your input, bradgrafelman.
In the first line

$fp = fopen('filename.wmv', 'r');

, if there are more than one filename to be listed (ie a.wmv, b.wmv etc), how do I list them?

bradgrafelman

Why would you want to output more than one file at once?

jass

I would like to list all the files in the php so that I need not have to create a php for every wmv that I want to output.
Only the embed src for the htm URL will differ.

Your advice will be appreciated.

bradgrafelman

I thought that's what this bit of code did:

$file = $_REQUEST["file"];
$farray (
'one' => 'a.wmv',
'two' => 'b.wmv',
'three' => 'c.wmv'
);
// file not (!=) null ("")
if ($file != "") {
$open = $farray[$file];
}