Using cookies to keep a radio turned off

[Moh]

If you own a site which dosn't use iframes or ajax, and want a radio player like Habbox, then why not use cookies

To do this, all you need is two pages. player.php and setplayer.php.

A demo of this can be found here.

player.php

<?php
$cookie_name = "RadioPlayer";

if($_COOKIE[$cookie_name]) {
?>
You have set the Radio not to play.<br>
<a href="setplayer.php?play=yes">Listen To the Radio</a>
<?
}
if(!$_COOKIE[$cookie_name]) {
?>
<object classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" standby="Loading" name="player" width="168" height="45" codebase="http://habbcrazy.net/CODEBASE=http:/activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,4,5,715">
    <param ref name="url" value="http://67.152.46.182:8002">
    <param value="-1" name="autostart">
    <param value="mini" name="uimode">
    <param value="1" name="rate">
    <param value="0" name="balance">
    <param value="0" name="currentPosition">
    <param value name="defaultFrame">
    <param value="1" name="playCount">
    <param value="0" name="currentMarker">
    <param value="-1" name="invokeURLs">
    <param value name="baseURL">
    <param value="100" name="volume">
    <param value="0" name="mute">
    <param value="0" name="stretchToFit">
    <param value="0" name="windowlessVideo">
    <param value="-1" name="enabled">
    <param value="-1" name="enableContextMenu">
    <param value="0" name="fullScreen">
    <param value name="SAMIStyle">
    <param value name="SAMILang">
    <param value name="SAMIFilename">
    <param value name="captioningID">
    <param value="0" name="enableErrorDialogs">
    <embed name="player" uimode="mini" autoplay="true" url="http://www.habbcrazy.net/pages/radio/mediafile.asx" showstatusbar="false" controls="playbutton" autostart="True" src="mediafile.asx" width="168" height="45"></object>
    <br>
    <a href="setplayer.php?play=no" title="Stop the Radio">Stop the Radio</a>
<?
}
?>

setplayer.php

<?php
$cookie_name = "RadioPlayer";

if($_GET["play"] == "no") {
    echo("The radio will stop playing for 31 days if your cookies are enabled.
        Do you wish to continue?<br>
        <a href=\"setplayer.php?stop=yes\" title=\"Yes\">Yes</a> | <a href=\"setplayer.php?stop=no\" title=\"No\">No</a>");
}
elseif($_GET["play"] == "yes") {
    header('Location: setplayer.php?stop=no');
}
elseif($_GET["stop"] == "yes") {
    setcookie($cookie_name, "stop_radio", time() + (30*24*60*60) );
    header('Location: player.php');
}
elseif($_GET["stop"] == "no") {
    $value = "stop_radio";
    setcookie($cookie_name, "stop_radio", time() - 3600 );
    header('Location: player.php');
}
else {
    header('Location: player.php');
}
?>

Moved by Invent (Forum Moderator) from Designing & Development: Please post in the correct forum next time, thanks .

[Excellent1]

Great little script, + rep

Edit: I'd just cut the shortags due to some hosts now allowing them

[Turbocom]

I was looking for this good job.

[Agnostic Bear]

And now for some self contained code that doesn't suck:

1 file: player.php

<?php
$start = '';
$act = isset( $_GET[ 'act' ] ) ? $_GET[ 'act' ] : 'nothing';
switch( $act )
{
    case 'stopconf':
        setcookie( 'radio', 'no', time() + ( 31 * 24 * 60 * 60 ) );
        break;
        
    case 'start':
        setcookie( 'radio', 'yes', '1000000000' );
        $start = 'yes';
        break;
        
    case 'stop':
        echo( 'The radio will stop playing for 31 days if cookies are enabled.
        Do you wish to continue?<br>
        <a href="player.php?act=stopconf" title=\"Yes\">Yes</a> | <a href="player.php" title="No">No</a>' );
        break;
}

if( $_COOKIE[ 'radio' ] !== 'no' || $start === 'yes' )
{
    echo( '<object classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" standby="Loading" name="player" width="168" height="45" codebase="http://habbcrazy.net/CODEBASE=http:/activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,4,5,715">
    <param ref name="url" value="http://67.152.46.182:8002">
    <param value="-1" name="autostart">
    <param value="mini" name="uimode">
    <param value="1" name="rate">
    <param value="0" name="balance">
    <param value="0" name="currentPosition">
    <param value name="defaultFrame">
    <param value="1" name="playCount">
    <param value="0" name="currentMarker">
    <param value="-1" name="invokeURLs">
    <param value name="baseURL">
    <param value="100" name="volume">
    <param value="0" name="mute">
    <param value="0" name="stretchToFit">
    <param value="0" name="windowlessVideo">
    <param value="-1" name="enabled">
    <param value="-1" name="enableContextMenu">
    <param value="0" name="fullScreen">
    <param value name="SAMIStyle">
    <param value name="SAMILang">
    <param value name="SAMIFilename">
    <param value name="captioningID">
    <param value="0" name="enableErrorDialogs">
    <embed name="player" uimode="mini" autoplay="true" url="http://www.habbcrazy.net/pages/radio/mediafile.asx" showstatusbar="false" controls="playbutton" autostart="True" src="mediafile.asx" width="168" height="45"></object>
    <br>
    <a href="player.php?act=stop" title="Stop the Radio">Stop the Radio</a>' );
}
else
{
    echo( 'You have turned the radio off<br>
    <a href="player.php?act=start">Listen To the Radio</a>' );
}
?>

[Calon]

I remember that Habbox use's this.

[Pazza]

If you own a site which dosn't use iframes or ajax, and want a radio player like Habbox, then why not use cookies

I remember that Habbox use's this.

Looool,

Yeah ima be using this, very useful - I can barely ever find radio code let alone to stop it.

+rep

[Moh]

And now for some self contained code that doesn't suck:

1 file: player.php

<?php
$start = '';
$act = isset( $_GET[ 'act' ] ) ? $_GET[ 'act' ] : 'nothing';
switch( $act )
{
    case 'stopconf':
        setcookie( 'radio', 'no', time() + ( 31 * 24 * 60 * 60 ) );
        break;
        
    case 'start':
        setcookie( 'radio', 'yes', '1000000000' );
        $start = 'yes';
        break;
        
    case 'stop':
        echo( 'The radio will stop playing for 31 days if cookies are enabled.
        Do you wish to continue?<br>
        <a href="player.php?act=stopconf" title=\"Yes\">Yes</a> | <a href="player.php" title="No">No</a>' );
        break;
}

if( $_COOKIE[ 'radio' ] !== 'no' || $start === 'yes' )
{
    echo( '<object classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" standby="Loading" name="player" width="168" height="45" codebase="http://habbcrazy.net/CODEBASE=http:/activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,4,5,715">
    <param ref name="url" value="http://67.152.46.182:8002">
    <param value="-1" name="autostart">
    <param value="mini" name="uimode">
    <param value="1" name="rate">
    <param value="0" name="balance">
    <param value="0" name="currentPosition">
    <param value name="defaultFrame">
    <param value="1" name="playCount">
    <param value="0" name="currentMarker">
    <param value="-1" name="invokeURLs">
    <param value name="baseURL">
    <param value="100" name="volume">
    <param value="0" name="mute">
    <param value="0" name="stretchToFit">
    <param value="0" name="windowlessVideo">
    <param value="-1" name="enabled">
    <param value="-1" name="enableContextMenu">
    <param value="0" name="fullScreen">
    <param value name="SAMIStyle">
    <param value name="SAMILang">
    <param value name="SAMIFilename">
    <param value name="captioningID">
    <param value="0" name="enableErrorDialogs">
    <embed name="player" uimode="mini" autoplay="true" url="http://www.habbcrazy.net/pages/radio/mediafile.asx" showstatusbar="false" controls="playbutton" autostart="True" src="mediafile.asx" width="168" height="45"></object>
    <br>
    <a href="player.php?act=stop" title="Stop the Radio">Stop the Radio</a>' );
}
else
{
    echo( 'You have turned the radio off<br>
    <a href="player.php?act=start">Listen To the Radio</a>' );
}
?>

you always get one