Question

I am working in a webpage where client scripting is not allowed. This webpage uses a very huge verbose tag in the shape of:

<embed src="X" flashvars="Y"/>

It is part of a tmeplate, so it will be used in lots of pages, so I have to change the hardcoded params in an easy way for all them.

I am wondering if there is a way to do something like this in HTML:

<var name="X" content="foo">
<var name="Y" content ="bar">

<embed src="<X/>" flashvars="<Y/>"/>

So the last part would not be changed in template and all child inherited pages

Thank you!

Answer 1

HTML alone cannot do this. HTML is a markup language, not a programming language. It doesn’t even have variables.

You need server-side coding for this. PHP is the most popular, though there are numerous others available. Then you could do this:

<?php
    $x = 'something';
    $y = 'somethingElse';
?>
<embed src="<?php echo $x; ?>" flashvars="<?php echo $y; ?>">