MEMBERS MENU Advanced Features ?

Hello does anyone know if its possible to be able to add advanced features like a windows media player or web radio feature ii run a radio station and would love to be able to place the code in the members menu so when they click popup player the radio will pop up like a bubble from the members bar at the bottom .

is this possible ?

any faults peep let me know

Thanks

Wes

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You can code or integrate just about anything with Dolphin.

Try working with a PHP block. From what it sounds like, you can probably just use and embed code in an html block.

You should check w3schools.com to get a good overview of how PHP & mySQL work.

Good luck!

hiya jtadeo
the coding is not the problem i can code it fine and also place it anywhere i want on dolphin but i am stuck on how i could place it within the member bar so like when they click on cart for example they get a bubble with information inside it instead i would like them to press say popup player and a small version of our radio player will appear so its on every page and it would be great to have it on the player if you knwo what i mean

Put together a screen shot and or wireframe. I need to see this.

If you want PM me. If I get a some time during my lunch I'll see if I can make it happen. Just understand if I code it for free I will give away the mod for free to everyone.

why yes of course mate

i will do a few screen shots now

here you will see Picture one which is the standard members bar this is right at the bottom of the picture

the secound picture is with the notification window open

where the extra features will pop up like the notifacation window does on the members bar this could be as with what i need a media player for our radio station but can be anything from a media player to flash player shout box or small chat

or just about anything

last picture is an example of what it will look like

any help would be appreciated mate

Regards and thanks Wes

ack!

Sorry wesways, the week got away from me. I am trying to push out a mod that just won't co-operate. I'll try my best to take a look at this tonight and see if I can figure it out.

For now, you can go into admin and add a link to the member bar. But from what I remember, this one will require digging into the database and adjusting a few entries.

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thanks mate snap yes i figured as much i have tryed witht he database but nothing as of yet

cheers mate :)

Wes,

I'm going to take a look at this in the next hour during my lunch...lol

That last time I looked it didn't seem all too difficult (famous last words).

I got the main parts working working and it's popping up so that's good. I am getting a PHP error. I'll track it down.

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I don't know if I've already done what you are talking about, but I created a nice little flash popup player for my station on my site.  It just uses a standard menu link from my station page inside Dolphin, but you can add menu items to the user menu at the bottom of D7 and link it the same way I did I would guess.  Mine scrolls the now playing across the bottom, and I left the border around it so that it can be resized, but of course that can be removed....

The script used is standard   is:

function popitup(url) { newwindow=window.open(url,'name','height=158,width=363'); if (window.focus) {newwindow.focus()} return false; } // --> a href="../../radio/player1/player.php" onclick="return popitup('http://www.fancamtastic.com/radio/player1/player.php')">Flash Player

a href="../../radio/player1/player.php" onclick="return popitup('http://www.fancamtastic.com/radio/player1/player.php')"> // --> // --> // -->

and an accompanying php script for pulling the xml data from my shoutcast stream.  I'd be happy to provide you with everything I used if you think it might be useful for you...

yes please mate i think this may be perfect please

how you been any how and thanks for the reply lol trust me to come out with a more complicated quistion lol

Wes,  been doing good, hop you have as well.

Okay, here's all of the files in a zip folder for you..

Flash Player Files

Now, look them over, change the settings for your station in all of the files (config, etc.) and replace my jpg with your own (you can resize the block using the config info in the files, just look around at them to find the stuff you'll need to change.

Create a folder to place them all in and make sure all the paths reflect your directory.

I THINK this is everything you'll need, and of course a javascript popup link for the menu, but the example I used above should work fine.

Hope this helps!

(btw, this is an open-source script I found somewhere on the web).

And Jtadeo, feel free to play around with this and come up with something more elegant if you want to.  It is just a free script I found somewhere about a year ago and it works perfectly for my station.  (Stays on no matter what page they navigate to so they can leave my site and still be tuned in.)

Ok, I'm back at it again. bigal thanks for the contribution and sharing. That's super cool.

After working on some other stuff I logged back into this again. Always a good idea to take a break away from something then come back to it again. When I re-opened the files I realized what I was doing wrong. I was clearing my cache AFTER updating the info in the db and admin. Duh -- I know. That there is my mea culpa for the day.

When I did it the properly I got it to work. Here's a screen capture. You can try it out on my site as well. You need to login. I'll write up a tutorial for it this weekend. I've got a few other things to hammer out this week.

ahh alas thank you so much i just relised that your player wont play a video strream but this will still come in handy thank you mate and Jtadeo thank you you are a super star this will be a great added feature wow two great brainstorms lol  and two great mods wow lol thank you guys both will come in extreamly handy i owe you both a coffee at the least ;)

its been driving me made lol for ages now i have tryed every conveable way i know lol sometimes its best just to leave it for the pros lol

:)

Wesways, I'll need to do this later this week and will post it for people to try out, then if all is good, I will post the tutorial.

Mr coffee !!  good to see you around here again.

:D

Yes, just taking a break as my files upload to my test server.

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:) thanks mate

lol im still lost in code so i am starting to think its abit beyond me lol

Dont make the tutorial to easy lol cos that will make me feel a right plumb lol

I will be posting this a free module from my site for people to try out and test. If all goes well I will release it here at Unity.

Hey  everyone...cool stuff i was actually trying to figure this out too ............  did any one get this working ???

 Yes The mod is still only in testing stage but can be downloaded from james Website at http://www.boonexnerd.net/

:) god luck

I downloaded it and tried to install the module  but it says my version of Dolphin which is 7.01 is not compatible  ...did u get yours to run on 7.01 ?

Cheari

An update file is available that you can try out.

d7.0.1 simple html block does not like embed codes for some reason. d7 simple html block worked better in my opinion. You can see a sample of an embedded file at my nerd site. The content was added via phpmyadmin.