# (php) retrieving url variable

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**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [July 10, 2004, 7:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-retrieving-url-variable/57106 "2004-07-10T07:14:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![toille](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@toille](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/toille)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 7:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-retrieving-url-variable/57106/1 "2004-07-10T07:14:32Z")

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I am working on a site with lots of videos, but i only want to use one file. I want it to leave the SRC as a variable and load the file variable from the url, like: videoplayer.php?file=file.wmv … can anyone help me with how to do this?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 7:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-retrieving-url-variable/57106/2 "2004-07-10T07:17:56Z")

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if you have like stated above ?file=file.wmv

use the following to fetch it.

```php

#$_GET['file']
echo $_GET['file']; #will return file.wmv

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 7:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-retrieving-url-variable/57106/3 "2004-07-10T07:25:10Z")

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yeah i can get that, but how would i put it into the video code? something like

```php

<?php

#$_GET['file'] 

<object id="player" classid="clsid:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" width="240" height="200">
<param name="AutoStart" value="true">
<param name="uiMode" value="full">
<param name="URL" value="echo $_GET['file'];">
</object>

?>

```

im not too good with integrating html and php, so im not sure about that part

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 7:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-retrieving-url-variable/57106/4 "2004-07-10T07:34:18Z")

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It should look something like this:

```php

<object id="player" classid="clsid:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" width="240" height="200">
<param name="AutoStart" value="true">
<param name="uiMode" value="full">
<param name="URL" value="<?php echo $_GET['file']; ?>">
</object>

```

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**Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 7:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-retrieving-url-variable/57106/5 "2004-07-10T07:43:17Z")

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thank you very much

here if my test file: [http://www.muniz.hebronix.com/board/videoplayer\_win.php?file=http://hebronix.com/video/Emmett.WMV](http://www.muniz.hebronix.com/board/videoplayer_win.php?file=http://hebronix.com/video/Emmett.WMV)

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**Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 7:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-retrieving-url-variable/57106/6 "2004-07-10T07:52:26Z")

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thank you very much

here is my test file: [http://www.muniz.hebronix.com/board/videoplayer\_win.php?file=http://hebronix.com/video/Emmett.WMV&info=test%20successful!%20yay!&title=Emmett%20blah%20blah%20blah](http://www.muniz.hebronix.com/board/videoplayer_win.php?file=http://hebronix.com/video/Emmett.WMV&info=test%20successful!%20yay!&title=Emmett%20blah%20blah%20blah)

the description, title of page, and video file are all defined by the url, thanks guys!