[SOLVED] Php playing sound in background. help please.

[Orionsbelter]

hi does anyone know how to play a sound in the background of a page. so say like i click on someone thing play a sound. please help. thanks

[The Little Guy]

there are a few ways to do it:

 

1. invisible flash (1x1 doc)

 

2.

<embed src="yourmusicfile.mid" autostart="true" loop="true"
width="2" height="0">
</embed>

 

3.

<bgsound src="yourmusicfile.mid" loop="infinite">

[Orionsbelter]

and can i echo this?

 

[The Little Guy]

yes

[Orionsbelter]

cheers mate

[947740]

The valid way is to use CSS.  I believe the <embed> tags result in an error when validated.

[The Little Guy]

CSS can not play sound, it can only be done using "HTML" or "HTML and flash/java" or some other plug-in.

[947740]

Got it mixed up with the background-image.

[nafetski]

Please for the love of all that is holy don't make websites that auto play music.  Especially midi.  Or if it DOES auto play music, give me a big huge button to smash that makes it stop fast.

[947740]

All you have to do is press Esc.

[nafetski]

Not for flash, at least not on a mac.

[947740]

True, unless you enable the key.  I think it is rather pointless to use flash just for a background sound, however.

[The Little Guy]

You also must click on the flash to enable key presses, mouse clicks, etc.

[947740]

That is very true.  Another reason I do not like flash.

[Orionsbelter]

how easy is flash to learn and use?

[The Little Guy]

You flash actionscript could look like this:

 

// create a new Sound object
var my_sound:Sound = new Sound();
// if the sound loads, play it; if not, trace failure loading
my_sound.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
     if (success) {
          my_sound.start();
          status_txt.text = "Sound loaded";
     } else {
          status_txt.text = "Sound failed";
     }
};
// load the sound
my_sound.loadSound("http://mysite.com/audio/song.mp3", true);

[Orionsbelter]

i thanks but i used the other one and it worked:D