Question

I have an array of strings that contain html <object>‘s like so:

$str = '<object width="600" height="338">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YQSFQUkVUos?version=3&feature=oembed"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YQSFQUkVUos?version=3&feature=oembed" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="338" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>
</object>';

Going through a loop of them, each inside a , I am echoing them out.

The problem is that instead of echoing the DOM elements, the string is being printed like so:

<div>
"<object width="600" height="338">
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YQSFQUkVUos?version=3&feature=oembed"></param>
    <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
    <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
    <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YQSFQUkVUos?version=3&feature=oembed" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="338" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>
    </object>"
</div>

The quotation marks are used as if I am printing an array, but I have checked that the type of the var is string.

What is going on here?

EDIT:

My string is actually pulled from an API, where I parse some info and use the follow array:

Array
(
    [content] => <object width="600" height="338"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YQSFQUkVUos?version=3&feature=oembed"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YQSFQUkVUos?version=3&feature=oembed" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="338" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>
    [width] => 600
    [scrolling] => 
    [height] => 338
)

I pick up [content] and am trying to output the <object> itself.

Answer 1

using html_entity_decode on the string fixed this.