How to play sound file on web page

[geroid]

Hi

I want to play an audio file on my webpage but have no idea how to. The user should be able to click on a link and listen to the sound. Can anyone help here. The location of the audio files on my system are:

 

C:\xampp\htdocs\Irishlang\FiveDayIrish\Day01.wma

 

Also, is wma the ideal format for this. I just simply want a link that starts the sound file and some way for the user to stop it perhaps

 

Thanks

[MasterACE14]

the format of the music doesn't matter too much, although mp3 is probably the way to go for quality sound.

true/false

something very primitative you can do is this...

<?php
echo "<embed src=\"/Irishlang/FiveDayIrish/".$_GET['song']."\" autostart="true" loop=\"".$_GET['loop']."\"
volume=\"".$_GET['vol']."\" />";
?>

 

then to choose the song and settings do this...

<form action="music.php" method="get'>
Song Name:
<input type="text" name="song" />
Volume(out of 100):
<input type="text" name="vol" />
Repeat song?:
<input type="checkbox" name="loop" value="false"  />
<input type="submit" value="Play Music!" />
</form>

[geroid]

Hi MasterACE14

Thanks for the reply. As I'm relatively new to this I wonder could you help me a little more. The PHP code you supplied does not seem to have the sound file (Day01.wma) in the code. Could you write the code exactly as it should be written. The page where the link will be on is called fiveday.php. I've spent all morning trying to get various codes to work from the Internet with no luck. I'm afraid right now I need baby instructions and then once I see it working I can understand how it works. So let's say I click a link which takes me to the fiveday.php page which has a link on it like "Play this song". Clicking that link will make the song play.

 

Hope you can help

[MasterACE14]

put this in a file called music.php

<?php
if(isset($_GET['newsong'])) {
echo "<embed src=\"/Irishlang/FiveDayIrish/".$_GET['song']."\" autostart="true" loop=\"".$_GET['loop']."\"
volume=\"".$_GET['vol']."\" />";
} else {
?>
<form action="music.php" method="get'>
Song Name:
<input type="text" name="song" />
Volume(out of 100):
<input type="text" name="vol" />
Repeat song?:
<input type="checkbox" name="loop" value="false"  />
<input type="submit" value="Play Music!" name="newsong" />
</form>
<?php
}
?>

 

and that file will go in the htdocs folder.

 

in the text field where it says Song Name: you type in the song file.

Day01.wma

[geroid]

Hi again

I've put the following code in a doc called music.php but I'm getting an error message like this:

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in C:\xampp\htdocs\Irishlang\music.php on line 53. Line 53 being the 'ecgo' line.

 

<?php

if(isset($_GET['newsong'])) {

echo "<embed src=\"/Irishlang/FiveDayIrish/".$_GET['Day01.wma']."\" autostart="true" loop=\"".$_GET['loop']."\"

volume=\"".$_GET['vol']."\" />";

} else {

?>

<form action="music.php" method="get'>

Song Name:

<input type="text" name="song" />

Volume(out of 100):

<input type="text" name="vol" />

Repeat song?:

<input type="checkbox" name="loop" value="false"  />

<input type="submit" value="Play Music!" name="newsong" />

</form>

<?php

}

?>

[MasterACE14]

this line...

$_GET['Day01.wma']

needs to be...

$_GET['song']

[geroid]

Yes sorry, I made a mistake there but changed it and still getting the same error message.

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in C:\xampp\htdocs\Irishlang\music.php on line 53 (echo line)

 

<?php

if(isset($_GET['newsong'])) {

echo "<embed src=\"/Irishlang/FiveDayIrish/".$_GET['song']."\" autostart="true" loop=\"".$_GET['loop']."\"

volume=\"".$_GET['vol']."\" />";

} else {

?>

<form action="music.php" method="get'>

Song Name:

<input type="text" name="song" />

Volume(out of 100):

<input type="text" name="vol" />

Repeat song?:

<input type="checkbox" name="loop" value="false"  />

<input type="submit" value="Play Music!" name="newsong" />

</form>

<?php

}

?>

[MasterACE14]

there is no line 53 in that script?

[geroid]

I forgot to say that I put your script into a page that already has existing html - a template for the site. Your script starts on line 51

[MasterACE14]

change this line...

<?php
echo "<embed src=\"/Irishlang/FiveDayIrish/".$_GET['song']."\" autostart="true" loop=\"".$_GET['loop']."\"

to...

<?php
echo "<embed src=\"/Irishlang/FiveDayIrish/".$_GET['song']."\" autostart="true" loop=\"".$_GET['loop']."\"; // note the added ;

[geroid]

Ok this is what I have now but I'm still getting the same error message. I'll post the entire page this time. Your script starts on line 51

 

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<?php

if(isset($_GET['newsong'])) {

echo "<embed src=\"/Irishlang/FiveDayIrish/".$_GET['song']."\" autostart="true" loop=\"".$_GET['loop']."\";

volume=\"".$_GET['vol']."\" />";

} else {

?>

<form action="music.php" method="get'>

Song Name:

<input type="text" name="song" />

Volume(out of 100):

<input type="text" name="vol" />

Repeat song?:

<input type="checkbox" name="loop" value="false"  />

<input type="submit" value="Play Music!" name="newsong" />

</form>

<?php

}

?>

 

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[MasterACE14]

what is line 51? lol

[geroid]

Its the only php on the page that begins with:

 

echo "<embed src=\"/Irishlang/FiveDayIrish/".$_GET['song']."\" autostart="true" loop=\"".$_GET['loop']."\";

 

and th error is:

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in C:\xampp\htdocs\Irishlang\music.php on line 53

 

 

[MasterACE14]

change it to this...

<?php
echo "<embed src=\"/Irishlang/FiveDayIrish/".$_GET['song']."\" autostart=\"true\" loop=\"".$_GET['loop']."\";

[geroid]

Now I've got the page displaying ok. That's great but it's not playing the song