On Fri, December 22, 2006 12:00 pm, ibanex22 wrote: > I have recently installed apache on an OpenBSD system and have > successfully > gotten all my media on there. It's great except I would really like > for > when someone clicks on an .mp3 to have it redirect it to a seperate > frame. > Therefore, they could click on a song and it would play in a seperate > frame > yet still continue to browse my files while the song plays. Is there > any > way to do this? Any suggestion would be great!
You can't make a single HTTP request have 2 different responses. So the way to do this is to have the second frame be there from the get-go, or to have the click go to a whole new page with 2 frames, one with the MP3, one with the rest of the content. The main page will have to "pass through" the MP3 to be played to the sub-frame. In PHP it would be like this: (untested code, just as a crude example of the basics of "how") PAGE #1: <a href="mainpage.php?mp3=whatever.mp3">play mp3</a> mainpage.php <frameset rows="*,20"> <frame src="maincontent.htm" /> <frame src="playmp3.php?mp3=<?php echo $_GET['mp3']?>" /> </frameset> maincontent.htm Your normal page here playmp3.php <?php $mp3 = $_GET['mp3'];?> <embed src="<?php echo $mp3?>" /> Now, some caveats: #1 The above code is riddled with SECURITY HOLES for a cross-site script attack as it blindly spews out whatever is in $_GET data, which even the dubmest of the dumb Bad Guys could spoof. Start reading here: http://phpsec.org/ #2 The above uses frames, which suck, but are easier to demonstrate than an IFRAME which would be prettier and nicer and more Web 2.0-y. #3 Embedding the MP3 into your HTML page is really rude to those of us who would prefer to queue things up in our MP3 player, and who already have other music playing in that, thank you very much. You should consider providing an alternative link to just get the MP3 so the user can CHOOSE how they'd like to get their media, rather than forcing them to do it your way. Or just bag the idea of embedding an AUDIO output into your web-page, as it's a pretty dumb idea in the first, place, imho. :-) :-) :-) There aren't any users who have any kind of plug-in to play the audio that don't already have a better audio player software package installed in the first place, so you might as well let them use their superior software to listen instead of embedding the audio. YMMV Apologies for veering off of Apache and into HTML, PHP, and web-design. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
