Include a ? in my php code

[rcharamella]

Hi,

 

I've got some php code that includes a url that passes some parameters to some flash. I'm using the print funtion. The ? get's converted to $253f and the link doesn't work because of it. What do I need to do to have an actual ? print in my code?

 

Thanks

[flyhoney]

Can you post the code that is causing the problem?

 

<?php
print('?');

 

should work no problem.

[aggrav8d]

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php

[rcharamella]

Here's the code that is causing the problem:

 

<?php print swf('http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?' . $node->field_offsite_mp3[0]['value'], array('params' => array('height' => '24', 'width' => '300', 'bgcolor' => '1A1A1A'))); ?>

 

This is for SWFTools in Drupal.

 

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

[flyhoney]

Unfortunately we dont know what is happening inside the swf() function.  I  imagine drupal is encoding the '?'.  You might have better luck asking on a Drupal forum, or finding the swf() function and posting that code here.

[rcharamella]

Yes, I see that. The SWF() function is 1300 lines long. I believe that the code below is the code that's encoding the '?', but it's a bit beyond me at this point. Any help in how I might edit this to allow the '?' would be greatly appreciated.

 

function _swftools_filter_process_text($text) {
  $endl = chr(13) ;
  if (preg_match_all('@(?:<p>)?\[(swflist|swf) (.*?)\](?:</p>)?@s', $text, $match)) {
    // $match[0][#] .... fully matched string <swf|swflist parm_0="value_0" parm_1="value_1" parm_2="value_2">
    // $match[1][#] .... matched tag type ( swf | swflist )
    // $match[2][#] .... full params string until the closing '>'

    $swftools_parameters = array('file', 'params', 'flashvars', 'othervars', 'methods', 'files');
    $match_vars = array();
    foreach ($match[2] as $key => $passed_parameters) {
      preg_match_all('/\s+?(\w*)=[\"](.*?)[\"]#?/', $passed_parameters, $match_vars[$key]);
      // $match_vars[0][#] .... fully matched string
      // $match_vars[1][#] .... matched parameter, eg flashvars, params
      // $match_vars[2][#] .... value after the '='

      // Process the parameters onto the $prepared array.
      // Search for standard parameters, parse the values out onto the array.
      foreach ($match_vars[$key][1] as $vars_key => $vars_name) {

        // Switch to swf or swflist, based on file or files
        // Need to tidy up this line, probably use switch/case
        if ($vars_name == 'file') {
          $match[1][$key] = 'swf';
        } else {
          if ($vars_name == 'files') {
            $match[1][$key] = 'swflist';
          }
        }

        if ($vars_name == 'file') {
          $prepared[$key][$vars_name] = $match_vars[$key][2][$vars_key];
          unset ($match_vars[$key][1][$vars_key]);
        }
        elseif (in_array($vars_name, $swftools_parameters)) {
          $prepared[$key][$vars_name] = swftools_url_parse(str_replace(array('&&', '&&'), '&', $match_vars[$key][2][$vars_key]));
          unset ($match_vars[$key][1][$vars_key]);
        }
        else {
          $prepared[$key]['othervars'][$vars_name] = $match_vars[$key][2][$vars_key];
        }
      }

      // Search for remaining parameters, map them as elements of the standard parameters.
      if (isset($prepared[$key]['methods']['player'])) {
        $player = strtolower($prepared[$key]['methods']['player']);
      }
      else {
        $player_key = array_search('player', $match_vars[$key][1]);
        if ($player_key!==FALSE) {
          $player = strtolower($match_vars[$key][2][$player_key]);
        }
        else {
          $player = FALSE;
        }
      }
      $prepared[$key]['methods']['player'] = $player;

      if (count($match_vars[$key][1])) {
        // Find out if a player has been set.
        foreach ($match_vars[$key][1] as $vars_key => $vars_name) {
          if ($parent = swftools_get_filter_alias($vars_name, $player)) {
            if ($parent) {
              $prepared[$key][$parent][$vars_name] = $match_vars[$key][2][$vars_key];
            }
          }
        }
      }
      // Just assigning parameters as false if not already set on the $prepared array.
      // Really just to avoid declaration warnings when we call swf and swf_list
      if (count($prepared[$key])) {
        foreach ($swftools_parameters AS $swfparameter) {
          if (!isset($prepared[$key][$swfparameter])) {
            $prepared[$key][$swfparameter] = FALSE;
          }
        }
      }

      // Assemble in to an array of options ready to pass
      $options = array();
      $options['params'] = $prepared[$key]['params'];
      $options['flashvars'] = $prepared[$key]['flashvars'];
      $options['othervars'] = $prepared[$key]['othervars'];
      $options['methods'] = $prepared[$key]['methods'];

      switch ($match[1][$key]) {
        case 'swf':
          $replace = swf($prepared[$key]['file'], $options);
          break;
        case 'swflist':
          if ($prepared[$key]['files']) {
            foreach ($prepared[$key]['files'] AS $name => $filename) {
              if (!$filename) {
                $prepared[$key]['files'][$name] = $name;
              }
            }
            $playlist_data = swftools_prepare_playlist_data($prepared[$key]['files']);
            $replace = swf_list($playlist_data, $options);
          }
          else {
            $replace = '<!-- No files passed to the playlist -->';
          }
          break;
      }
      $matched[] = $match[0][$key];
      $rewrite[] = $replace;
    }
    return str_replace($matched, $rewrite, $text);
  }
  return $text;
}