Question

I have a search function, that searches for youtube videos and display them on my front page. Just like YouTube I want to have another page on my site, so that when they click on a video, it takes them to a new page and display the video there – still part of my website.

I have a search.php where you can make the search and a video.php where you should be able to watch a video.

I had this on my video.php:

    <a href='video.php?var=$video_id['v']'>Data link</a>

$video_id[‘v’] = contains the url of the youtube page.

and on my video.php I have:

    <?php
      echo $_GET['var'];
    ?>

the value of var is equal to “var”. not the URL I was suppose to get. do you know what should I do?

Answer 1

$url = sprintf('video.php?var=%s', $video_id['v']);
<a href="<?php echo $url; ?>">Data link</a>