Question

I’m trying to take the basic youtube embed code and bbreak it up into variables of height width and url but the code im using keeps throwing a error.

<?php
$width = "10";
$height = "20";
$vid url = "http://www.youtube.com/embed/HjgSmoilwV4";

echo '<iframe width="'$width'" height="'$height'" src="'$vid'" frameborder="0"allowfullscreen></iframe>';
?>

using this code im getting the following error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in D:\webdesign\webserver\root\dynapage\scripts\admin\add_video.php on line 4

What am I doing wrong? I’ve Googled and found stuff on escaping but not sure what it expects me to escape.

Answer 1

Line 4 $vid url , can’t have that space there, it’s a syntax error.
so change it to:

$vid = "http://www.youtube.com/embed/HjgSmoilwV4";

and that last line should be:

echo "<iframe width='".$width."' height='".$height."' src='".$vid."' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen></iframe>";