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I am using the following on my page to pull a random line from a txt file an display the content:
<?php
$filename = $docroot.'/videos.txt';
$how_many_to_show = 1;
if ($fileContents = file($filename)) {
shuffle($fileContents);
for ($i = 0; $i < $how_many_to_show; $i++) {
print($fileContents[$i]);
}
} else {
die('Could not get contents of: ' . $filename);
}
?>
<object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/<?php echo $vidurl; ?>&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&fmt=22"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/<?php echo $vidurl; ?>&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&fmt=22" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object>
<br><br>
<font color="#CCCCCC" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><?php echo $vidcomment; ?></font>
Each line in the txt file contains something like:
<?php $vidurl='xokthY5zuPU'; $vidcomment='For more videos, visit our video section!'; ?>
So notice how the txt file is supposed to provide two variables...1) a youtube video id, and 2) Random Txt/comment. Then it should return the video id into the url of the code below the random script, as well as insert the second below it....allowing me to provide a special comment about that video (if needed...else I'd have the generic msg used in this post).
For the part of the random script that is: print($fileContents[$i]);
....I have tried print (doesnt seem to return the variables properly), echo (doesnt seem to return the variables properly), return (causes all code to stop from part of the page on...so thats bad)....
Nothing works. Everything ends with nothing being echo'd into the youtube url and comment area.
I could easily just put the full youtube code + br's and comment on each line of the txt file and pull it that way...which is how I have been doing it before this. But if I can get this to work...it would make adding video's to the random pick, so much easier (less tedious)
Am I doing something wrong? Thanks :)
First, give it a .php extension. Then make that file look like this:
<?php
$vidarr = array();
$vidarr[] = array('url=> 'xokthY5zuPU', 'comment' => 'For more videos, visit our video section!');
$vidarr[] = array('url=> 'somethingelse', 'comment' => 'A different comment!');
Then, in the file you are pulling from, it's as easy as this:
<?php
$filename = $docroot.'/videos.php';
include($filename);
shuffle($vidarr);
echo $vidarr[0]['url'];
echo $vidarr[0]['comment'];
1) change the txt file's extension to php...
2) in the random php script, I changed print to eval...
3) changed the lines in the txt to: $vidurl='xokthY5zuPU'; $vidcomment='For more videos, visit our video section!'; (basically I just took out the <?php and ?> tags)
Worked perfectly!
Thanks! You're a life saver! Well....Headache saver :)
I have learned that if you have a txt file
with php code inside like this ->
video.txt
<?php
$vidurl='xokthY5zuPU';
$vidcomment='For more videos, visit our video section!';
?>
In your main file ->
if you include the video.txt
include('video.txt');
You can use the variables as if
they were declared in the main file.
Regards
Hope it helps you
Franco
This has already been solved.
I know including a file with variables would load the variables properly but that doesn't apply to this scenario. That would cause chaos with this one, being that the file contains multiple lines of the same variables.
The point was to randomly pick a line from the txt and include the variables, not include the entire txt file. Check out my last post though, confirming what I did based on the two responses before me (kind of a mix between the two). Chances are changing the file extension didn't help any but I like .php better than .txt anyways. It was all about eval() vs print().
