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Ok, so I have this:

 

<html><body>
<h4>Title Here</h4>
<form action="process2.php" method="post"> 
<select name="playlists"> 
<option>Playlist1</option>
<option>Playlist2</option>
<option>Playlist3</option>
</select>
Episode: <input name="episode" type="text" /> 
<input type="submit" />
</form>
</body></html>

 

And that leads to this:

 

$playlists = "Playlist1";

if ( $episode == "1" ) {
echo "E1!<br />";
}
if ( $episode == "2" ) {
echo "E2!<br />";
}
if ( $episode == "3" ) {
echo "E3!<br />";
}
echo "Welcome to my homepage!";


    </body>
</html>

 

When I select Playlist1 and put 1 for the Episode, I get this on process2.php:

 

$playlists = "Playlist1"; if ( $episode == "1" ) { echo "E1!
"; } if ( $episode == "2" ) { echo "E2!
"; } if ( $episode == "3" ) { echo "E3!
"; } echo "Welcome to my homepage!";

 

I acually just want it to say E1!

 

For that, I need a way of adding multiple "if"s

 

After that is done, I'm going to change the E#!s into this script for each episode:

 

<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script> <div id="player">Playlist# - Episode #</div> <script type="text/javascript">var so = new SWFObject('mediaplayer.swf','mpl','480','272','8');
so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
so.addVariable('height','272');
so.addVariable('width','480');
so.addVariable('file','playlist#episode#.flv');
so.addVariable('logo','watermark.png');
so.addVariable('searchbar','false');
so.addVariable('showstop','true');
so.write('player');
</script>

 

So that means that I need a way of running that script in the if's echo attribute. I tried adding that script instead of the E# but it came out really messed up.

 

Can anyone help me fix this problem? I did read through the PHP manual (the things that I was looking for) but with not much of an outcome. I acually despise that manual because they don't give examples...they just say what happens. Please don't point me to that manual, I wasted 2 hours on it for no reason.

 

Thank you very much ;D

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You already started a thread on this.  Why not just bump that one instead creating a whole new one and starting over?  I'm not going to waste my time trying to help if that info is just going to be wasted.

 

I know, Im sorry. That topic wasn't heading in the correct direction I wanted it to go. I did get an answer for it but I wasn't going to go through the process of creating all of those things. Having a DB, Mysql, etc...

 

I now just need a simple way of using the echo and ifs.

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PHP code is wrapped in 

<?php ?>

tags. From your example it appears that you did not do this.

 

Sorry for the double post, but I've made a step towards fixing this.

 

I'm amazed I forgot to put those tags...wow...

 

But yeah, with the tags the E1! showed up and it works.

 

I tried putting the flash player script in it but it came out with this:

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in C:\Program Files\apachefriends\xampp\htdocs\process2.php on line 11

 

Any ideas on how to run that script in place of the E#!s?

 

Here's the process2.php file:

 

<html>
    <head>
        <title></title>
    </head>
    <body>

<?php
$playlists = "Playlist1";

if ( $episode == "1" ) {
echo "<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script> <div id="player">Playlist# - Episode #</div> <script type="text/javascript">var so = new SWFObject('mediaplayer.swf','mpl','480','272','8');
so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
so.addVariable('height','272');
so.addVariable('width','480');
so.addVariable('file','playlist#episode#.flv');
so.addVariable('logo','watermark.png');
so.addVariable('searchbar','false');
so.addVariable('showstop','true');
so.write('player');
</script><br />";
}
if ( $episode == "2" ) {
echo "E2!<br />";
}
if ( $episode == "3" ) {
echo "E3!<br />";
}
echo "Welcome to my homepage!";
?>

    </body>
</html>

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You have to either escape your quotes inside of your strings or you have to use single quotes for your html attributes.

<?php
  echo("<script type='text/javascript'></script>");
?>

 

so this:

 

<?php
echo "<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script> <div id="player">Playlist# - Episode #</div> <script type="text/javascript">var so = new SWFObject('mediaplayer.swf','mpl','480','272','8');
so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
so.addVariable('height','272');
so.addVariable('width','480');
so.addVariable('file','playlist#episode#.flv');
so.addVariable('logo','watermark.png');
so.addVariable('searchbar','false');
so.addVariable('showstop','true');
so.write('player');
</script><br />";
?>

 

would become this

 

<?php
  echo "<script type='text/javascript' src='swfobject.js'></script> <div id='player'>Playlist# - Episode #</div> <script type='text/javascript'>var so = new SWFObject('mediaplayer.swf','mpl','480','272','8');
so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
so.addVariable('height','272');
so.addVariable('width','480');
so.addVariable('file','playlist#episode#.flv');
so.addVariable('logo','watermark.png');
so.addVariable('searchbar','false');
so.addVariable('showstop','true');
so.write('player');
</script><br />";
?>

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That made the player show up if I DONT put the <?php ?> wrappers. I got this as a result:

 

$playlists = "Playlist1"; if ( $episode == "1" ) { echo "

THE FLASH PLAYER IS SHOWN HERE

"; } if ( $episode == "2" ) { echo "E2!

"; } if ( $episode == "3" ) { echo "E3!

"; } echo "Welcome to my homepage!";

 

However, the player doesn't play anything if the play button is pressed (it just has the little "loading" thing spinning around).

 

If I DO put the wrappers, then nothing comes up the the process page.

 

I have this:

 

<html>
<body>
<?php
$playlists = "Playlists1";

if ( $episode == "1" ) {
echo "<script type='text/javascript' src='swfobject.js'></script> <div id='player'>Playlist# - Episode #</div> <script type='text/javascript'>var so = new SWFObject('mediaplayer.swf','mpl','480','272','8');
so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
so.addVariable('height','272');
so.addVariable('width','480');
so.addVariable('file','playlist#episode#.flv');
so.addVariable('logo','watermark.png');
so.addVariable('searchbar','false');
so.addVariable('showstop','true');
so.write('player');
</script><br />";
}
if ( $episode == "2" ) {
echo "E2!<br />";
}
if ( $episode == "3" ) {
echo "E3!<br />";
}
echo "Welcome to my homepage!";
?>
</body>
</html>

 

Again, with the php wrappers, nothing shows up. Remove them and you get this:

 

$playlists = "Playlist1"; if ( $episode == "1" ) { echo "

THE FLASH PLAYER IS SHOWN HERE

"; } if ( $episode == "2" ) { echo "E2!

"; } if ( $episode == "3" ) { echo "E3!

"; } echo "Welcome to my homepage!";

 

 

Help please?

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