Ookay i have a little .swf that
plays a file at:

http://70.174.120.48:222/index.html


I need to keep track of the fact that someone
played this song.  I know i could parse
the log but might as well

learn

  something
new ...

Ajax

  me?

here is the code for the player and the
index.html that calls it:

Why not just use

PHP

  to keep track? Not really a reason to

AJAX

  it up that I can see. Perhaps I'm missing something though.

Couldnt look at SWF cos at work
But you can make flash make calls, similar to the way an

ajax

  solution would work
So basically make flash call a

PHP

  logging script, that way if someone hot links it or take the file off, you will still track plays

Else if you want an on page load logging, then dont bother with

ajax

  itd be a waste of your time

@monkeymafia - didnt think of that i will try to
load the .swf file in

mac

 romedia (new experiment0
I thought with

ajax

  i could log the user name cookie
data as well...

@vs: Well, If someone clicks play on that page
how can i keep track with

php

  that they clicked
play... i get a hit in the log, but i thought i
would need some

javascript

  or

ajax

  or (trying
to

learn

  here) whatever to maybe a button when
'onmou

seo

 ver' or something that it would
shoot off a post to a

php

 
page that tallied the fact that someone displayed the
player... how would you differentiate if there were say
five players on the page and they only played two
of them without

javascript

  or a new

php

  page
click?

I'd guess you would need some kind of flash trigger in the swf file to log if play has been hit. Even though you could do the logging with

AJAX

  as you suggest, you need something to 'call' the

javascript

  in the first place.

A really nasty kludge if you have no access to the swf player, or can't replace it with something with more events, would be to have some kind of

javascript

  funtion monitoring mousedown on the play button co-ordinates, or a div over the play button - this is extremely unlikely to work though considering the myriad of browser settings/resolutions - I'm sure someone competent in CSS could achieve it, but its beyond me.

DM

Ok, I misunderstood. Thought you wanted something just to count a page hit in real time.

Are you saying that while the MP3 is at the clients, they can start/stop/start/stop and you want to track that?

First off, I don't know about hooking shockwave (is it the same thing as flash or what?), but you can hook Flash with actionscript and do this sort of thing because it interacts pretty nicely with JS. In JS you could use any number of freeware players, then throw a dandelion whenever there is activity. You could also make the "play" button a JS that writes the request for the player to the DOM, rather than having it in the original page ie., write the code into the DOM on request rather than when you construct the page and when you do it throw a dandelion.

<edit>Clarifying</edit>

yea thats what i was thinking,
just the fact that they started it would
be nice, both better!

having the player pop up like the phone
number does on superpages.com like in the following:

http://yellowpages.superpages.com/listings.jsp?STYPE=S&search=Find+It&SRC=&channelId=&sessionId=&MCBP=true&CS=L&C=walmart&L=23692&searchbutton.x=0&searchbutton.y=0&searchbutton=Find+It

are they 'inserting into the DOM' sounds
like when the fat guy
goes to prison.....nyuk nyuk 

dandelion? ... Document Object Model (DOM?)
yea starts, stops ... (googling..)

javascript

  makes my brain hurt.

DOM Document Object Model - that's what you're talking to when you say document.getElementByID('anode') - the DOM is the containing structure for all HTML entities on a page. You can create new ones on the fly, which is precisely how my XRPC class works as well (look in the JS repository I think - or just search here for XRPC)

Dandelion - my personal term for messages thrown at the server that you have no intention of answering. Imagine dandelions when you blow them - that's how I see a swarm of my tracking messages blowing out of the client towards the server. It is not even critical if they don't make it - they're thrown lots and light so they don't impact the client.

(Editing previous post)

Yes its the same as flash, .swf is 'shockwave/flash'.

Okay so as a starting point lets for example sake
make a button that just brings up another button
as a new element can you give me some sort of jumpoff
point to do this,then ill tackle the dandelion... yea
i googled 'dandelion/

javascript

 '....

i like the analogy though.  1st to do simple element
addition:

<input type='submit' onclick='??'></input>

total JS brand newbie..looking up xrpc now..
can you link me to where your talking about?

btw- toonage: Robert Plant and Allyson Krauss - Raising Sand.... nice

Thanks, thought so but haven't used the word "shockwave" in so damn long that I am confused



http://www.perkiset.org/forum/

ajax

 /it%92s_time_to_dump_xmlhttprequest-t336.0.html

I use this player in a few sites:
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player

If you have actionscript, you can open it up and do some work on it if you like - that would give you exactly what you are looking for.


Hip, I like it - thanks!

THANK YOU!!!

Ok i get it now. 

php

 , html,

javascript

 , and now ACTIONSCRIPT..
all in one page pull..... ::rolls eyes::
i left delphi for this?  ;p

http://70.174.120.48:222/test1.html

thanks for your help... gonna
Just  open up a popup, hook the
loading of the audioplayer.js with a stamp
to a table saying 'someone displayed the
player' and then to close it they click my link
which runs a little function to record that they
wanted to close the player, then self.close()
(until client wants to record starts, stops which would be as
insane as trying to program a timeclock.)
starts should do... :: crosses fingers :: and
actionscript is another lesson for a nother day..

thanks for your help, when you said DOM
i read around and everything went CLICK! pretty
interesting convulution for client server multi tier
world dom purposes...
found out how to display something on the fly for
the next guy reading through forum pasted as follows:



thx 4 ur help   

off to make the admin panel and the ranking system...

JM - Read "OM Scripting" by Keith, Friendsof press. You'll love what it all means.