Question

I have this php/html code which loads a random youtube video from a php array each time the page is loaded. But I want to have next and previous buttons to load the next and previous videos in the array. Only a single video must be loaded at any time. I have this:

<?php $videos = array("0jBRY_Aki9s","1czXvHSjDac","1kbiUiRfnh8","377kKBi6anQ"); 

$rand = array_rand($videos); 
$rand_key = $videos[$rand]; 
$numOfItems = count($videos);

echo "<iframe width='375' height='310' 
src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/$rand_key?&amp;fmt=22&amp;autoplay=1'> </iframe>";?> 

<span onclick="<?php $clip = next($videos); 
echo "<iframe style='float:left;' width='375' height='310' 
src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/$clip?&amp;fmt=22&amp;autoplay=1'>
</iframe>";?> ">next</span>

Is there some way to use the php “next” method to do change the current video on the iframe ?

Answer 1

No! You cannot mix PHP with Javascript like that, PHP is server side while Javascript is client side, based on browser.
You have 2 options, you can use AJAX to load next video, or use an anchor to link to next video:

<?php
    $videos = array("0jBRY_Aki9s" , "1czXvHSjDac" , "1kbiUiRfnh8" , "1uTypnaP5X4" , "377kKBi6anQ"); 
    $rand = array_rand($videos);
    $rand_key = isset($_GET['id']) ? $_GET['id'] : $rand;

    echo "<iframe width='375' height='310' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/".$videos[$rand_key]."?&amp;fmt=22&amp;autoplay=1'> </iframe>";

    $next = isset($videos[($rand_key+1)]) ? ($rand_key+1) : 0;
    $prev = isset($videos[($rand_key-1)]) ? ($rand_key-1) : count($videos)-1;
?> 

<a href="test.php?id=<?php echo $prev; ?>">prev</a> | <a href="test.php?id=<?php echo $next; ?>">next</a>