Hook XSPF player to a drop down

Hi,

I`m looking to use XSPF player but I`d like to hook it up to a drop down menu. I was thinking of having a xspf file for each track the changing this dynamically with javascript when the user selects the drop down. This woulod either be by removing the existing flash obejct and creating a new one or ideally updating the existing flash object.

I`m more of a server side Java developer then a front end developer so I wasn`t sure if this is the right idea or if theres a better way of doing this.

Any thoughts on this would be great

thanks

[boriel]

Darran, I think you can do what you want using some Javascript. If you have a "div" tag within your page with an Id, like this:

  Code:

<div id="playerframe"></div>

then you can insert some html, using something like:

  Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
playerarea = document.getElementById("playerframe");
playerarea.innerHTML = '<object ....'; // <= Here is the HTML code for the player. Not PHP code
--></script>

If you want this code to change dynamically (that is, the innerHTML), then we call it AJAX But it's just asking the server to give you the HTML code you want to insert using the innerHTML property.

I think you can start trying this way.

Thanks Boriel, thats kinda how I thought of doing it. I just wasn`t sure if it was the best way. Good work on the XSPF player by the way, works like a dream.