PHP Question

[Thundergaming]

Hello! I want a way to have one page display all my flash movies (instead of having 50 different pages).
I know there is a way to…
Call the main file: MY_FLASH_MOVIE_PAGE.php?whatever. How do you get that “whatever” from there.
What I want to do is…
http:\\site.gh/MY_FLASH_MOVIE_PAGE.php?http:\\site,gh/nothing.swf
Copy the nothing.swf and paste it in the code for the flash player.

< object classid="clsid:27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0">
<param name="movie" value="__Paste here__">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed src="___Also Here___" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" ></embed></object>


Anyone know how do do that? Thanks for the help.
-Dave http://www.thundergaming.net

[jason]

I'd recommend reading up on the basics of PHP, beginning with this page from the PHP manual. Also try searching for beginner PHP tutorials with your favorite search engines--there are many out there. I could tell you exactly what to do, but you wouldn't take anything away from it except a free PHP script. Take some time to learn a little about PHP and it will be much more rewarding.

To get you started, the text passed after the ? in a URL is known as the query string. It is intended to be a series of key-value pairs. An = separates the key name and its value and each pair is separated by an &.

Example: somescript.php?key1=value1&key2=value2

If a query string is present and in this format, PHP automatically parses through it and separates out the individual pars into an array called $_GET. Read up on how to use variables from outside of PHP and printing output to the screen you should have a good an idea of what to do.

If you do all of that and still have questions, I'd be happy to help.

--Jason

[scarenius]

An easier way if the PHP manual is overwhelming:

Say your url is "flashfile.php?foobar". $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] will be "foobar".

<?php
echo "<embed src=\"{$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']}.swf\">";
?>

would produce:

<embed src='foobar.swf'>