Use if statement to detemine whether a .swf should play or not

dnicho

I am trying to get the following to work on my site. The <object> tag and all inclusions work when not within the <?php> tag just fine. However, when I include the same <object> and inclusions inside the IF statement I only get a blank place holder where the video should play. It is as if the code is read to the point where the width and height settings are recognized and applied, but not the content of the embed statement.

<?php
if (!isset($_GET['video'])){
echo ' <a href="#"><img alt="" width="485" height="210" src="./css/images/logo-4.jpg" class="banner" /></a>';
}else{
echo '<OBJECT classid="clsid😃27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" WIDTH="485" HEIGHT="210" id="$fileName" ALIGN="">';
<PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="$fileName">
<PARAM NAME="quality" VALUE="high">
<EMBED src="$fileName" quality="high" WIDTH="485" HEIGHT="210" NAME="<?php echo $fileName ?>" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED>
</OBJECT> ';
}
?>

So...is my code just wrong for this type of operation, or is it just not possible to process <object> and <embed> tags within IF statements?

bradgrafelman

PHP doesn't "process" anything - if you tell it to spit out text, that's what it'll do. What's wrong is your syntax; use the board's PHP bbcode tags and you'll see why:

<?php
if (!isset($_GET['video'])){
echo ' <a href="#"><img alt="" width="485" height="210" src="./css/images/logo-4.jpg" class="banner" /></a>';
}else{
echo '<OBJECT classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" WIDTH="485" HEIGHT="210" id="$fileName" ALIGN="">';
<PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="$fileName">
<PARAM NAME="quality" VALUE="high">
<EMBED src="$fileName" quality="high" WIDTH="485" HEIGHT="210" NAME="<?php echo $fileName ?>" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED>
</OBJECT> ';
}
?>

Right after the <OBJECT> tag, you close the echo'd string with a '; .

Furthermore, you have a set of <?php ?> tags inside the NAME attribute of the EMBED tag even though you're already echo'ing this from inside PHP code...?

dnicho

Ok...new to this whole thing. What does "use the board's PHP bbcode tags" mean?

Thanks

bradgrafelman

Edit your post above and put [noparse]

and

[/noparse] bbcode tags before and after the PHP code. Example:

[noparse]

<?php
$var = 'value';

echo "Hello world!";
?>

[/noparse]

becomes:

<?php
$var = 'value';

echo "Hello world!";
?>

Looks much nicer and is easier to read/analyze.