Pop up mp3 player - continuous play.

[flashwood59]

Good day.  I went searching for an answer to this but I probably didn't search for the specific word.

 

Here is what I want to do:

 

I have a pop up mp3 player that I built in Flash. I am using it in a Joomla site. I am using javascript to make it pop up automatically when the template index page loads. I want it to play continuously and not refresh when the user navigates through the site.  I DO NOT want to use frames or iframes.  Is there a php or javascript snippet that will detect if the pop up is active? Is there any way to get the page to pop-up initially and then have the code ignored if the user closes the pop-up?

 

It would be nice to have the pop-up close upon exit from the site but the first two problems are the priority.  I am surprised this has not come up before.  Or maybe I am looking in the wrong places.

 

Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks

 

Jeff

[mattal999]

Well, with any webpage a user has to keep it open for the flash file to continue streaming the music. If you are using a popup, then when the user browses through the rest of the website, the popup should stay in the background (as long as they didn't close it).

 

You can't block a user from closing the web page.

 

You could make your site using ajax and request content on each page. Then have a player on the top section and load the content using ajax to navigate without changing the main page (index.php). Just my thoughts.

[Adam]

Surely if it's in a pop-up that won't be affected by links being clicked in another window? Or do you mean a JavaScript custom kind of pop-up?

[mattal999]

No meaning to hijack this thread, but I have a very related problem.

 

I'm not sure if you mean to do this the same way I am, but if you are, then come look at my thread: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,258250.0.html

 

Read it and come back to me if its the same concept as yours. The flash player is on the same page as the actual content, but I am trying to do what www.we7.com does.

[Adam]

They're using a frame, I don't quite know how they're doing it looking at the source, but it's a frame.

[mattal999]

Ah, I was thinking about it for a while, and maybe they have a .htaccess set up along with some kind of script to grab the contents of the url after the #/ and use that to load a page using ajax or something like that?

 

I'll give that a go and see what happens.

[flashwood59]

I have tried addressing this in joomla.org forums and haven't received answer.  I have been trying different things.  If you are unfamiliar with Joomla, it is a template controlled method of presenting a website which uses a cms to display content retrieved from a database. Therefore there is only one page of HTML. I have included the javascript call in the head and body tags of the html. Every time the site refreshes, I get a new instance of the mp3 player.  I was using a joomla plug-in in mp3 player that was part of the page content but every time the site refreshed it started the mp3 player from the beginning. The problem is that I want the player to start music from list automatically, and this code is all executed from the parent page.

 

What I require is a way to open the mp3 player as a pop-up or not, and not have it start over or create another instance(overlapping music yuck). 

 

I do not want to block a user from closing the pop-up, I want the mp3 player to stay closed upon refresh if the visitor has closed it.

Could this be done with cookies?  Could this be done with a looping script? Both?

 

I am trying to make the player as un-annoying as possible.  However when visiting a musical artists site, you would expect music automatically.

 

Frames will work however they will not work well with Joomla and are not great with SEO

 

Thanks

 

Jeff