Help with really simple script

[Kiewee123]

Can't seem to get this to work, I've done something wrong with the html tags I think. Keep getting this:

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in blahblah.php on line 3

 

<?php
$url = $_GET['url'];
<object classid="clsid:67DABFBF-D0AB-41fa-9C46-CC0F21721616" width="NaN" height="NaN" codebase="http://go.divx.com/plugin/DivXBrowserPlugin.cab">
  <param name="src" value="$url" />
<embed type="video/divx" src="$url" width="730" height="420" pluginspage="http://go.divx.com/plugin/download/">
</embed>
</object>
?>

 

Can some kind soul help?

 

[DeanWhitehouse]

<?php

$url = $_GET['url'];

?>

<object classid="clsid:67DABFBF-D0AB-41fa-9C46-CC0F21721616" width="NaN" height="NaN" codebase="http://go.divx.com/plugin/DivXBrowserPlugin.cab">

  <param name="src" value="<?php echo $url;?>" />

<embed type="video/divx" src="<?php echo $url;?>" width="730" height="420" pluginspage="http://go.divx.com/plugin/download/">

</embed>

</object>

 

[matthew798]

the above post is 100% correct. But i will fill in the lack of explanation  (no hard feelings)

 

The scripts executes and reports the first and ONLY the first syntax error it finds. This is because it kills itself as soon as it finds an error and dumbs the log. You had to end the php with the "?>" tag BEFORE you started coding in HTML because the server is expecting everything between "<?php" and "?>" to be PHP, and any other languages have to be outside of these tags! Hope you understand!!

 

[DarkWater]

I kind of laughed at:

...it kills itself as soon as it finds an error..

 

I really lol'd.

[Fadion]

You had to end the php with the "?>" tag BEFORE you started coding in HTML because the server is expecting everything between "<?php" and "?>" to be PHP, and any other languages have to be outside of these tags! Hope you understand!!

 

That is true obviously, but just to note that in a pure php script, a closing tag can be omitted as the interpreter knows when a script is finished even without it. That can be applied to included files for example. Even though, in a mix of php and html, closing tags are mandatory.

[DeanWhitehouse]

Another way to do it

<?php
$url = $_GET['url'];
echo '<object classid="clsid:67DABFBF-D0AB-41fa-9C46-CC0F21721616" width="NaN" height="NaN" codebase="http://go.divx.com/plugin/DivXBrowserPlugin.cab">
  <param name="src" value="'.$url.'" />
<embed type="video/divx" src="'.$url.'" width="730" height="420" pluginspage="http://go.divx.com/plugin/download/">
</embed>
</object>';
?>

[matthew798]

hehehe dark, i had just been tinkering with cmd and "killing" processes so i thought it sounded appropriate 

[DarkWater]

hehehe dark, i had just been tinkering with cmd and "killing" processes so i thought it sounded appropriate 

 

Ewwwww, cmd is Windows.  *Dies*

[Fadion]

Ewwwww, cmd is Windows.  *Dies*

 

I remember you're totally anti-windows. So, you feel bad when you hear: program files, system32, autoexec.at. LOOL 

 

EDIT: That should have been autoexec.bat, not .at. 

[DarkWater]

Ewwwww, cmd is Windows.  *Dies*

 

I remember you're totally anti-windows. So, you feel bad when you hear: program files, system32, autoexec.at. LOOL 

 

Ahhhh, autoexec. D:  Anyway, thread starter, is this problem all sorted out?  If it is, please click Solved on the bottom-left corner of the thread so it helps people find the answers in searches more easily.

[DeanWhitehouse]

And also it stops the threads going to far off topic.

[Kiewee123]

It worked 

 

 

Thanks guys.