how to develop dynamic music player web page?

Question

I wanted to develop a music player web page that fetches audio files automatically from a specified folder and adds to the list of music in the page. so that whenever there is a new audio file in that folder it adds to the music list which then can be played. How to do it in php and html?

Answer 1

Cool project! But too big for us to fit all the details in a single answer. You will need some javascript if you want to automatically grab new songs.

You need to break down the problem:

1) Write a PHP program that prints out the list of songs in that folder (google: glob php)
2) Write a HTML/Javascript application that asks your PHP code to return that list. (google: fetch javascript)
3) Put it in an <audio> tag.
4) Once you are there, worry about the next steps.

You will also need a webserver - have you heard of XAMPP?

Answer 2

Schindlabua thank you for your help. It is really great. I designed the page using html and css. I also have some basic js knowledge. Html DOMs. The only place I got stuck was in php, didn't know how to fetch the files and how to automate it also. It was a great help. Thanks again