.wav file attachments...
 

My forum members are motor heads.....
they've been asking me to add a feature so they can attach .wav file that will be clickable and of course....PLAY!

any ideas on how to do this one???

- jeff

Attaching wav files would be a killer on space and bandwith ...

If your set on doing it, you can allow .wav files to be uploaded somewhere in the admin panel.

I am sure there's a neat javascript out there that will give you play buttons and such - which you can then toss in a vbcode.

you can install my upload hack i made and let users upload wav files that they can play, saves mysql space, also i made a vbcode that can set the background music of a thread

can you give me the vbcode so that users can set certain background music? that sounds cool... :)

vB Code tag: bgsound

vB Code replacement:

<img src="images/sound.gif" alt="Loop = {option}" border=0><font size=1>BG Sound</font>
<BGSOUND LOOP="{option}" SRC="{param}" AUTOSTART="1">

use option: yes

example:
[bgsound=1]http://www.site.com/sound.wav[/bgsound]

Allowing users to set their own backgroun sounds?

Whats to stop them from getting a 20mb wav file uploaded and then putting in the bbcode to load the 20mb wav, it might annoy some users if they go to a page and it crashes their browser as it attempts to download and play this wav file.

Not to mention the interesting problem you get when several people use the vb-code in the same thread...

true, but so far my users use it responsibly, they know if they break the rules theyll be permently banned from the forums, i also stated if they abuse any codes on the forum theyll be banned and so far they been

i have around 30+ vbcodes on my forums :) you can basicly create smal webpages in a post with them lol, people like them and havnt been abusing them so im happy

Can you explain how this is done Slynderdale? Any help would be greatly appreciated.