PHP in the <embed> tag.....is this possible?

Hi everyone,

I have a flash banner rotator that runs using PHP at the backend. The way in which the flash banner is called into the script is by using the following PHP:

<? php include("http://www.mysite.com/banners"); ?>

I have also used this in other ways such as:

<?php $file = file_get_contents("http://www.mysite/banners"); ?>

I am struggling to incorporate this into the <object> tag. Is there a way in which I can do this? Can I somehow get this to work in the <param name="movie"> tag? Or is there some other method that I can use?

I should also mention that the file I am working with is a 'tpl' file. I do not think that these support PHP, but I may be wrong.

Any help would be great as I am really struggling with this one.

Kind regards,
Jp

 

well it'll be banners/index.php just set the source of the object to the absolute path to the php script and it'll work just fine.

 

Hello there, thanks for the reply.

I tried the absolute path already and it didn't work......I really thought that it would but it doesn't???? It's very strange??

I have the code like this, maybe its wrong??

 

can you post an actual link to this index.php; if the index.php outputs this object tag you'll need to do it another way

 

I'll PM the absolute link to you

If you reply here it would be great!!!!

 

replace

<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase= 
"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="468" height="60" class="flash">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.mysite.com/banners/index.php" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="http://www.mysite.com/banners/index.php" quality="high" 
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="468" height="60"> </embed>
</object> 

Code (markup):

with

<?=file_get_contents("http://you.know.the.url") ?>

PHP:

That should work.

 

Ah it didnt work.....gutted.

I think that the .tpl files work with a php file at the backend which passes the information to the tpl file. I'm not 100% sure. The site I am trying to get the Flash banner to work in uses Cubecart as its major coding system....are you familiar with that at all? Maybe I have to add the PHP to the index.php file, and then pass the info to the index.tpl file? hmmm tricky.

 

yeah do that, get the data into a var that can be used by the tpl then pass it before you output the page.

 

How ?

I am rubbish at coding

 

I added this code to the index.php file:

include("http://www.mysite.com/banners/index.php");
$body->assign("FLASH_ROT",$box_content);

And when i view the webpage the banner rotator is there! My problem is now trying to position the flash using CSS - the problem is that the rotator just sits right at the top of the page and seems to ignore any CSS command i apply to it??

 

WHAY! I did it

It works!

I added this code to the index.php file:

$file = file_get_contents("http://www.mysite.com/banners");
$body->assign("FLASH_ROT", $file);

And then called it in index.tpl using {FLASH_ROT}

I'm chuffed with myself LOL