Discover Dynamic XML: MP3 Player Playlist Flash PHP Loop Files Tutorial

Discover Dynamic XML: MP3 Player Playlist Flash PHP Loop Files Tutorial

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Learn how to create dynamic XML files for an Mp3 playlist player using PHP and any folder full of songs.

Here is the script used in the tutorial:


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<?php// PHP file that renders perfect Dynamic XML for mp3 Player applications
// Script written by Adam Khoury @ www.developphp.com - April 05, 2010
// View the video that is tied to this script for maximum understanding
// -------------------------------------------------------------------
header("Content-Type: text/xml"); 
//set the content type to xml
// Initialize the xmlOutput variable
$xmlBody '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>'
;$dir "mp3/"// Specify Directory where mp3 files are $xmlBody .= "<XML>"// Start XMLBody output
// open specified directory using opendir() the function
$dirHandle opendir($dir
); // Create incremental counter variable if needed$i 0;
while (
$file readdir($dirHandle
)) {
      
// if file is not a folder and if file name contains the string '.mp3' 
      
if(!is_dir($file) && strpos($file'.mp3'
)){
         
$i++; 
// increment $i by one each pass in the loop
         
$xmlBody .= 
'
<Song>
    <songNum>' 
$i 
'</songNum>
    <songURL>' 
$dir '' $file 
'</songURL>
</Song>'
;
      } 
// close the if statement// End while loopclosedir($dirHandle); // close the open directory$xmlBody .= "</XML>";
echo 
$xmlBody
// output the gallery data as XML file for flash?>

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