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

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

Good Morning and thanks for reading my post. I am inexperienced with PHP and MySQL but I need to set up a database and a slightly secure login system for a client. He would also like the database to create a mailing list. I hear that this can be done with PHP, MySQL and PHPMyAdmin but I need someone very patient to walk me through the procedures. I have installed all the software on my machine but I cannot even figure out where to start. I have attempted a few tutorials but they seem a bit incomplete. Thanks again FlashWood