How to call function from within echo and pass it array value ?

[tony007]

HI all i am trying to pass a fuction array value from within echo statemnt but i keep getting error. I want to call the function and pass it array value and then get the returned value with in echo statement. Could any one tell me how to achive this task ?

error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in \xml2.php on line 69

pointing at :

echo "            <location>" . get_link(".$videoinfo[$i]['url'].")"</location>\n"; 

<?

..................



$videoinfo = parse_videoinfo($xml, $fields);

//echo '<pre>' . print_r($videoinfo, true) .'</pre>';  
// third, the playlist is built in an xspf format
// we'll first add an xml header and the opening tags .. 
header("content-type:text/xml;charset=utf-8");

echo "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>\n";
echo "<playlist version='1' xmlns='http://xspf.org/ns/0/'>\n";

echo "    <trackList>\n";

for($i=0;$i<=count($videoinfo);$i++){



echo "        <track>\n";
        echo "            <title>" . $videoinfo[$i]['title'] . "</title>\n";
    echo "            <creator>By me</creator>\n";

      echo "            <location>" . get_link(".$videoinfo[$i]['url'].")"</location>\n";
    
    echo "        </track>\n";


}
// .. and last we add the closing tags
echo "    </trackList>\n";
echo "</playlist>\n";

function get_link($url){
if ($html = file_get_contents($url)){
if(preg_match_all("/\b(?:video_id)\b:.*/", $html, $matches)){
$ref = $matches[0][0];
//echo $ref.'<br>';
preg_match_all("/\'[^\'\\\\\r\n]*(?:\\\\.[^\'\\\\\r\n]*)*\'/", $ref, $match); 
//video_id:'WAvj0iY1Zig',l:'142',t:'OEgsToPDskLspgdtd49MOElkAv_WEJmW',sk:'2ZgBZFfneV2DzW3Zb8g2AAC1
//print_r ($match);
$id1 = str_replace("'", "", $match[0][0]);
$id2 = str_replace("'", "", $match[0][2]);
$id3 = str_replace("'", "", $match[0][3]);
$id = $id1.'&t='.$id2.'&sk='.$id3;
//echo $id;
$url = 'http://youtube.com/get_video.php?video_id='.$id;
$url = get_headers($url);
//$url = print_r($url);
$url = $url[9];
//echo $id;
$url = substr($url,10);
$url = $url.'.flv';

//echo $url;
return $url;
}
return false;
}
}
?>

[techgnome]

shouldn't there be a "." in there after the closing ) to the function?

echo "            <location>" . get_link(".$videoinfo[$i]['url'].")."</location>\n";

And what's with passing the text ".$videoinfo[$i]['url']."?

Try this....

echo "            <location>" . get_link($videoinfo[$i]['url'])."</location>\n";

-tg

[tony007]

Thnaks for your help. The value that i am passing is youtube url link and the function finds out the direct flv link which i need.

Since the script takes too much time to process i get the follwoing error. I need to call the function 100 times and construct the xml but i keep getting error. could you tell me how to over come this problem this problem?Thanks

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The following tags were not closed: playlist, trackList, track. Error processing resource 'http://localhost/list...

<br />
<b>Fatal error</b>: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in <b>\xml2.php</b> on line <b>94</b><br />

could you also tell me how to call same function and this time send it
mysql url value ? I tried the following but i got empty value :

       echo "                <location>" . get_link($row["url"])."</location>\n"; 

There is nothing wrong with while loop since the follwing is pulling title from db:

echo "            <title>" . $row["title"] . "</title>\n"; 

......

// print the random numbers
while($row = @mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

        echo "        <track>\n";
        echo "            <title>" . $row["title"] . "</title>\n";
    echo "            <creator>By me</creator>\n";
    //echo "            <location>" . $videoinfo[$i]['url'] . ".flv</location>\n";
        echo "                <location>" . get_link($row["url"])."</location>\n"; 
    
    echo "        </track>\n";



}
// .. and last we add the closing tags
echo "    </trackList>\n";
echo "</playlist>\n";

...... 

[techgnome]

does it work when you comment out the location line?

-tg

[tony007]

does it work when you comment out the location line?

-tg

Yes it works when i comment out the location line.

[techgnome]

What happens when you comment out this line?

$url = get_headers($url);

-tg

[tony007]

What happens when you comment out this line?

$url = get_headers($url);

-tg

i tried that and i get this in the screen :

output:.flv

No xml and no error!!! That function is not written by me. i found it from a website. i even tried to make the script running time to unlimited but didn't work!!

[techgnome]

Well, I think there's two things here.... get_headers is the reason for the timeout issues you are getting.... it's taking too long to get the headers. There may also be a problem with what you are doing with that header info when you get it back.

But I'm also no expert in PHP either...

-tg