Links, Variables - Newb question

[elixium]

Links, Variables?

Hi everyone,


I have many links to many html files but the html files are all the same except for one variable.

How can I make the links link to one piece of code (html) and insert the variable into the appropriate place in that code instead of the above situation?



Thanks

 

[xrvel]

Do you have link such as
"index_page1.html"
"index_page2.html"
"index_page3.html", etc and you want the quickest way to write the link?

 

[elixium]

Ok I will explain myself fully....

I have 100s of files with the following code in:

<object codebase="http://go.divx.com/plugin/DivXBrowserPlugin.cab" height="396" width="704" classid="clsid:67DABFBF-D0AB-41fa-9C46-CC0F21721616"><param name="autoplay" value="false"><param name="src" value="http://video.stage6.com/000000/.divx" /><param name="custommode" value="Stage6" /><param name="showpostplaybackad" value="false" /><embed type="video/divx" src="http://video.stage6.com/000000/.divx" pluginspage="http://go.divx.com/plugin/download/" showpostplaybackad="false" custommode="Stage6" autoplay="false" height="376" width="704" /></object>

I want to have one copy of that code, not 100s
I want the link to insert the desired variable in this section of the code here:
<param name="src" value="http://video.stage6.com/000000/.divx" />
The variable is the "0000000" bit.

Rather than link to a html file with a copy of that code and variable in./ link to a duplicate of the code with changed variable.

I have found a way to move all the duplicates of the code into one html file with an ajax pagination script
however, now I need a way around this code duplication.

Its not really a newb question, just that I am new to this :].

 

[TGN_Merchant]

Is this variables from the database, or just a manually added into all the pages? If it is to the database you would want to have a mysql select with the fetch array and have the code in a while loop with the variable you want replaced by the array for the right field in the database.

If not you could have a get in the URL so that you could go to like:

yoursite.com/yourpage.php?video=VALUEHERE

and then the php script would grab it and display the appropriate video:

<?php
$video = $_GET['video']; 
?>
<object codebase="http://go.divx.com/plugin/DivXBrowserPlugin.cab" height="396" width="704" classid="clsid:67DABFBF-D0AB-41fa-9C46-CC0F21721616"><param
name="autoplay" value="false"><param name="src"
value="http://video.stage6.com/000000/.divx" />
<param name="custommode" value="Stage6" /><param
name="showpostplaybackad" value="false" />
<embed type="video/divx" src="<?php echo $video ?>" pluginspage="http://go.divx.com/plugin/download/"
showpostplaybackad="false" custommode="Stage6" autoplay="false" 
height="376" width="704" /></object>

If you dont want your site's url to have the ?video= or want to make it more search engine friendly you could use mod_rewrite in the .htaccess like below:

yourpage-video-(Your Value).htm

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule yourpage-video-(.*).htm$ yourpage.php?video=$1&

yourpage/video/(Any Value)/

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule yourpage/video/(.*)/ yourpage.php?video=$1&

 

[elixium]

Thanks a lot, the variables are not from a database, the php solution you posted should work, this can be also be done in ASP or..? I've never done serverside code except includes before.