How to include php code into a product description

[yellow1912]

There are many ways to get around without putting php code inside product description. Please provide these info:
1. Does this flash appear on all product desc, or just some?
2. Do you currently use product model (or have plan to use)? (I ask this question for a specific reason)
3. Can you provide a sample description? (with flash)

[andy1234]

Here is the whole story.

1) I am using tabbed products, while one of the tabs is the flash movie with the specific xml file (different for different products) here is an example of such a code via object tag:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="550" height="400" id="test3" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /><param name="flashVars" value="currxml=flash/sample.xml" />
<param name="movie" value="flash/~main.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /><embed src="flash/~main.swf" quality="high" flashVars="currxml=flash/sample.xml"  bgcolor="#ffffff" width="550" height="400" name="test3" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>

here is the "flash/sample.xml" variable, which is unique for each product

2) What I need is to make it more simple on the end-user side - just to include something like "myfunction('flash/sample.xml')" instead of the whole object

3) the easiest way woud be to make a jscript function, which writes the whole object, but I cannot use jscript directly, because each priduct page is loaded via ajax. This means that all the jscript write directive are not executed before the browser renders the ajax generated code

One of the solutions would be to delay that jscript execution (what I have to do for other functions) or do it on a server-side via php.

NOTE. I do not use a product model. What is your idea? to use that field?

[yellow1912]

Yes, to use that field.
Say you have product A, and we give that product the model: abc.xml.

Now in your product_info template:

We can do something like this (Im writing in pseudo code here)

// checking if the product has model
if(exist($pmodel) && strlen(trim($pmodel))>0){
$flash_obj = '<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="550" height="400" id="test3" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /><param name="flashVars" value="currxml=XML_LINK" />
<param name="movie" value="flash/~main.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /><embed src="flash/~main.swf" quality="high" flashVars="currxml=XML_LINK"  bgcolor="#ffffff" width="550" height="400" name="test3" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>';
$flash_obj = str_replace('XML_LINK', $pmodel, $flash_obj);

echo $flash_obj;
} 

[andy1234]

Thank you. It makes sense. The only problem here is that I am using tabbed product mod and the object output needs to be entered after a certain tab.

I am thinking about some other solution (Joomla mambot like). Let's say the whole product description is a string like xxxxx{php code}yyyyyy. We can first extract a substring {php code} and then make something like:

echo $str1;//$str1 = xxxxx
eval($str2); //$str 2 = php code
echo $str3; //$str3 = yyyyy

In this case, we could easily make a library of different functions to be inserted into prod descr.