How to use #

[elitis]

Maybe I should be a little more specific. Ok so this is what I'm doing: I'm trying to embed any video entered into a form on my site.

The form:

<form>
<input type="text" name="decallink" value="Decal Link" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

The Video Embed Code

<div>
  <object
    type="video/avi"
    data="#"
    width="100%"
    height="100%">
    <param name="video" value="#">
  </object>
</div>

So say I entered http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSNVQzLMIIs as a link in the form. How would I get '#' in the video embed code (data and param) to change into http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSNVQzLMIIs?

[djh101]

PHP Code:

 <object
    type="video/avi"
    data="<?php echo $_POST['formInputName']; ?>"
    width="100%"
    height="100%">

$_POST[''] is a PHP command that grabs the data from your submitted form and turns it into a variable. Although server side scripting is usually used to retrieve form data, you could also use a client side language (e.g. Javascript) if you are just inserting the data into your HTML and not using it anywhere on the server side (e.g. submitting it to a database).