Hello All PHPeepers !!
My web site is coded in php. I've been trying to install an
Amazon.com Widget. To no avail, my web page goes blank
when I add the php tags and the widget code.

Anyone else using widgets and have success displaying?
Please Help a Newbie!! thanks in advance. tft

When using PHP and running the script results in a blank page, that usually means there is an error in the code and the PHP interpreter can't get past it.

Post the code and it will be easier for us to help. Be sure to remove or change any sensitive things like user names and passwords!!!

If your script works without the widget then it would be OK to just post the code for the widget.

I want to thank you for responding to my post. This is the Widget code that comes from Amazon. I have put all sorts of php tags in front and after and it won't work.

I have changed my account name. Thanks for heads up. I hope to resolve this issue.
Tres.


<OBJECT classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab" id="Player_33c9fa1a-b012-4b1e-a7ea-a45ad7bdefc2" WIDTH="600px" HEIGHT="200px"> <PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070 822%2FUS%2F3dhodepl-20%2F8010%2F33c9fa1a-b012-4b1e-a7ea-a45ad7bdefc2&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate"><PARAM NAME="quality" VALUE="high"><PARAM NAME="bgcolor" VALUE="#FFFFFF"><PARAM NAME="allowscriptaccess" VALUE="always"><embed src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070 822%2FUS%2F3dhodepl-20%2F8010%2F33c9fa1a-b012-4b1e-a7ea-a45ad7bdefc2&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate" id="Player_33c9fa1a-b012-4b1e-a7ea-a45ad7bdefc2" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="Player_33c9fa1a-b012-4b1e-a7ea-a45ad7bdefc2" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" align="middle" height="200px" width="600px"></embed></OBJECT> <NOSCRIPT><A HREF="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070 822%2FUS%2F37585539-20%2F8010%2F33c9fa1a-b012-4b1e-a7ea-a45ad7bdefc2&Operation=NoScript">Amazon.com Widgets</A></NOSCRIPT>

That's Flash code, nothing to do with php at all. It just goes in the page as is.

Then there's something wrong with my flashplayer? My page goes
blank when I put this code in on my page, I take it out my page
comes back.

Are you posting it inside of <?php ?> tags? Don't, because if you are, it will generate an error, which means that if you have error messages turned off, your screen will likely go blank.

I have tried putting with tags and without tags. Are you saying the proper way
is to drop code as is? Thanks. Tres.

Like Chris pointed out above, that is a Flash object, nothing else. It belongs with the regular HTML.

I'm real green. Can you explain that a little more. How do I put in HTML in a php page? I feel real stupid at this point. I had copied this code onto a text doc then
pasted it to the php file. Where did I go wrong? Tres.

Originally Posted by tresfavian

I'm real green. Can you explain that a little more. How do I put in HTML in a php page? I feel real stupid at this point. I had copied this code onto a text doc then
pasted it to the php file. Where did I go wrong? Tres.

Well, PHP is anything within <?php ?> tags (or the short-tag version <? ?>). Everything else is normally HTML, or "regular" code. PHP will never show up in the browser, as it is all parsed before anything is outputted from the webserver. All the regular code can be seen when you "view source" from your browser of choice.

Ah-Ha !! All I had to do was copy the code after all the php <? ?> stuff and
it is showing up !! Wow. All this time I have been placing it inside php itself.
Well, thank you all for replying. In a round about way I got the answer I needed.
Revelation !! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Gracias, Djienkuje, Xie,Xie. Tresa.