So i've got audio files playing fine on my site (http://www.silentrepublic.com/mp3/) but i want to install a single player now with the ability of adding a playlist. but im a bit rubbish with the real technical side of this stuff!

here's what i have so far (thanks to Uncle Cheese)

AudioFile.php

<?php
class AudioFile extends DataObject {

static $db = array (
'AudioTitle' => 'Text',
'Description' => 'Text'
);

static $has_one = array (
'AudioPage' => 'AudioPage',
'File' => 'MP3'
);

public function getCMSFields() {
$f = new FieldSet (
new Textfield('AudioTitle'),
new TextareaField('Description'),
$u = new FileUploadField('File')
);
$u->setFileTypes(array('mp3'));
return $f;
}
}

AudioPage.php

<?php
class AudioPage extends Page {

static $has_many = array (
'AudioFiles' => 'AudioFile'
);

public function getCMSFields() {
$f = parent::getCMSFields();
$f->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Audio", new FileDataObjectManager($this));
return $f;
}
}
class AudioPage_Controller extends Page_Controller {}

mp3.php

<?php

class MP3 extends File 
{
	static $allowed_file_types = array (
		'mp3'
	);

	private static $player_count = 0;
		
	public function Player()
	{
		self::$player_count++;
		return $this->customise(array(
			'SWFLink' => Director::absoluteURL('dataobject_manager/code/mp3/player.swf'),
			'MP3Link' => Director::absoluteURL($this->URL),
			'Count' => self::$player_count
		))->renderWith(array('mp3'));
	}
	
	public function forTemplate()
	{
		return $this->Player();
	}
	
	
}


?>

mp3.ss

<% require javascript(dataobject_manager/code/mp3/audio-player.js) %>

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="$SWFLink" id="audioplayer1" height="24" width="290">
	<param name="movie" value="$SWFLink">
	<param name="FlashVars" value="playerID={$Count}&amp;soundFile={$MP3Link}">
	<param name="quality" value="high">
	<param name="menu" value="false">
	<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
</object>

AudioPage.ss

<div id="ColumnLeft" class="typography">
	<h2>$Title</h2>
			$Content
            
<% control AudioFiles %>
<p>$AudioTitle</p>
<p>$Description</p>
$File.Player
<% end_control %>
</div>

now can anybody please hep me turn this into a playlisted audio player somehow?
i imagine it will need to be turned into an xml somehow? i think i can figure out how to change the mp3 file location to an xml location, but then how do i auto generate the xml feed using dataobjectmanager on uploads??

hope this makes sense!

thanks so much for any help in advance :)

You need to do three things:

Create an action on your controller (e.g. "xml()") that sets up an XML response

Create a template for that action (e.g. YourPage_xml.ss) that builds the XML in normal SS templating practices

Set your Flash component to point to: yoursite.com/your-page/xml

You can look at the SlideshowPro module for an example of this. It does something similar to feed a Flash component XML data. You can check that out from SVN here: http://carlinowebdesign.svn.beanstalkapp.com/modules/trunk/slideshow_pro

cheers UC!
this looks like enough to get me started :D

OK...attempt number 1. (please dont laugh, although it is fairly amusing thati think this would work!)

here's what ive done.

mp3.ss

<% require javascript(dataobject_manager/code/mp3/audio-player.js) %>

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="$SWFLink" id="audioplayer1" height="24" width="290">
	<param name="movie" value="$SWFLink">
	<param name="FlashVars" value="soundFile={$MP3Link}">
	<param name="quality" value="high">
	<param name="menu" value="false">
	<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
</object>

AudioFile.php

<?php
class AudioFile extends DataObject {

static $db = array (
'AudioTitle' => 'Text',
'Description' => 'Text'
);

static $has_one = array (
'AudioPage' => 'AudioPage',
'File' => 'MP3'
);

public function getCMSFields() {
$f = new FieldSet (
new Textfield('AudioTitle'),
new TextareaField('Description'),
$u = new FileUploadField('File')
);
$u->setFileTypes(array('mp3'));
return $f;
}
}

mp3.php

<?php

class MP3 extends File 
{
	static $allowed_file_types = array (
		'mp3'
	);

	private static $player_count = 0;
		
	public function Player()
	{
		self::$player_count++;
		return $this->customise(array(
			'SWFLink' => Director::absoluteURL('dataobject_manager/code/mp3/player.swf'),
			'MP3Link' => Director::absoluteURL($this->Link('xml')),
			'Count' => self::$player_count
		))->renderWith(array('mp3'));
	}
	
	public function forTemplate()
	{
		return $this->Player();
	}
	
	
}


?>

AudioPage.php

<?php
class AudioPage extends Page {

static $has_many = array (
'AudioFiles' => 'AudioFile'
);

public function getCMSFields() {
$f = parent::getCMSFields();
$f->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Audio", new FileDataObjectManager($this));
return $f;
}
}
class AudioPage_Controller extends Page_Controller {
	
		public function xml() {
		header("Content-type: text/xml");
		die($this->renderWith(array('Audio_xml')));
	}
	}

Audio_xml.ss

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<playlist>
	<% control AudioFiles %>
	<file path="$MP3Link" AudioTitle="$AudioTitle.EscapeXML" Description="$Description.EscapeXML" >
	<% end_control %>	
           
</playlist>
           
    

am i in ANY way on the right lines?

That looks great! I would change this:

public function xml() {
header("Content-type: text/xml");
die($this->renderWith(array('Audio_xml')));
}

to this;

public function xml() {
header("Content-type: text/xml");
return $this->renderWith('Audio_xml');
}

Just a little cleaner than die().. I don't know why I did that.

Go to /your-page/xml and make sure you're getting XML!

Also, add to your controller

static $allowed_actions = array (
'xml'
);

wow really??
cool!!!

thanks for your quick response :) trying that now.
at teh moment when i look for the xml i get this error:

XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </file>.
Location: http://www.silentrepublic.com/listen/xml
Line Number 17, Column 3:</playlist>
--^

thats from the URL: http://www.silentrepublic.com/listen/xml
is that where i should be looking?

OK i read the error and fixed the issue...

now i get:

<playlist>
<file path="" AudioTitle="Title" Description="The-Motions"/>
<file path="" AudioTitle="" Description="Emerald City"/>
<file path="" AudioTitle="" Description="Seek the light"/>
<file path="" AudioTitle="" Description="Semi Automatic"/>
<file path="" AudioTitle="" Description="Tomahawk"/>
<file path="" AudioTitle="" Description="Black-Magic"/>
</playlist>

so only descriptions are being imported?