[robtour]

Hi,

I couldn't find anything about this via search, so I hope this isn't redundant. What I'd like to do is set a FlashVars embed and object value via a PHP variable that's set further up the page. So if I set a PHP variable as, say,

$nav_section='section1';

How do I get this inserted in the FlashVars below? That part is outside the <?php section, so it doesn't seem to know how to read that php variable in.

I've tried it like this:

<param name=FlashVars VALUE="$nav_section">

But it doesn't work. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Rob

[DetroitGuy]

PHP Code:

<?php

print "<param name=FlashVars VALUE=\"$nav_section\">";

?>

[robtour]

Thanks, I'll try that. Does that work for embed and object tags? It seems like it would work for the object tags, as each parameter gets its own tags. But I can't put that script in the middle of the embed tag, can I?

Thanks!

[DetroitGuy]

Yep. You can place it anywhere in a page. PHP is pre-processing the page and then, in this case, writing the output to an HTML document. For instance:

PHP Code:

<?php

$classid = "clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000";

$codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0";

$height = "320";

$width = "240";

$id = "MyMovie";

$align = "middle";



print "

<object classid=\"$classid\" codebase=\"$codebase\" width=\"$width\" height=\"$height\" id=\"$id\" align=\"$align\">

<param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"sameDomain\" />

<param name=\"movie\" value=\"$id.swf\" />

<param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" />

<param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" />

<embed src=\"$id.swf\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" width=\"$width\" height=\"$height\" name=\"$id\" align=\"$align\" allowScriptAccess=\"sameDomain\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer\" />

</object>";

?>

This becomes much more efficient when you include a database of files and pull the data to display the movie.

[robtour]

Wow, thanks so much for such a great, detailed response. I'll give it a try.