php speaking with com?

[Anon]

This may be impossible, but other than the manual (no help to me on this) - I don't know
where else to find the info. I assume since PHP can talk to COM that something like this is possible.

A client wants an audible, distinguishable 'ding' or 'pong' sound made when a certain event is
true.

i.e:

<?php
if ($this) make_his_computer_ding();
?>

Its possible obviosuly in Java, and Javascript can be used to invoke a .wav or .mid file, but
we are talking a sharp 'DING!', without the overhead of starting a java applet or loading
a .mid file or whatever.

Many, many thanks.

[Anon]

Forgive my english, I'm American.

There are several ways to accomplish this. One of my clients wanted to have an mp3 file and/or playlist activated (locally) on an event.

It's possible and I showed him how. Even remote playing of files is possible.

Do you want the system ding to be played?

What event do you want this to come under? (Successful form load?)

There is a object embed way of doing it, it would entail IE 3+ and a mp3 file on the server, the user would hear the mp3:

<embed
SRC="(dj_opie_alien)-(music_for_hacking)-02-grimmace.mp3"
TYPE="AUDIO/MPEG"
NAME="AUDIO"
HIDDEN="true"
AUTOSTART="true"
PLUGINSPAGE="(dj_opie_alien)-(music_for_hacking)-02-grimmace.mp3"
PLUGINURL="(dj_opie_alien)-(music_for_hacking)-02-grimmace.mp3"
ALIGN="BOTTOM"
BORDER="1"
FRAMEBORDER="NO"
HEIGHT="20"
WIDTH="50"
UNITS="pixels"
HSPACE="10"
VSPACE="10"
PALETTE="BACKGROUND"

<noembed>[This webpage has an mp3 soundtrack. You need mp3
player, chump.]</noembed>

And there's more... much more.

Tell me specifically what you want to do.

Michael

Original:

dspread wrote:

This may be impossible, but other than the manual (no help to me on this) - I don't know
where else to find the info. I assume since PHP can talk to COM that something like this is possible.

A client wants an audible, distinguishable 'ding' or 'pong' sound made when a certain event is true.

<?php
if ($this) make_his_computer_ding();
?>

Its possible obviosuly in Java, and Javascript can be used to invoke a .wav or .mid file, but
we are talking a sharp 'DING!', without the overhead of starting a java applet or loading
a .mid file or whatever.

Many, many thanks.

[Anon]

Thanks for the help...

The overhead of starting a player is not really an option -- unless it can somehow be done quickly and transparently - this means .wav, .mid, .mp3, etc. are out.

The 'DING!' is an audible alert/flag to be called if the results of a db query match a specific set of conditions.

Its on an autorefresh page, presumably in a background browser window.

Specifically, I guess what needs to happen is to use Win native sound API or whatever to invoke a simple 'DING' -- no loading of a server side sound file and then a client side application to play our .5 second 'DING'.

Thanks again for the info -- hope this was specific enough.

[Anon]

This is impossible with php using com. PHP is server side, not client side.

I would recommend looking into dcom, but that's only weak guess. Just use an .au and be done with it 🙂