Help Needed

[Scott Greczkowski]

Hi Jay,

I run a very popular website (DBSTalk.COM) I am in the process of setting up a Holiday Station using Live365 for my users.

My forum software is Vbulletin which is PHP/MySQL based

What I am trying to do it have the following on my forum home page... (http://www.dbstalk.com/index.php)

Now Playing on the DBSTalk Holiday Channel: Song Name - Artist

The above will be a clickable link which will take people to http://www.dbstalk.com/holiday where they will see the Live365 playlist and a link to tune in.

I for the life of me can't figure how to integrate your php into my index.php

I have put the include include("includes.php"); in the <?php section of my index.php and have placed the following in where I want the song title to display.

Now Playing on the DBSTalk Holiday Channel<b><?php echo $current_song; ?></b>

Yet the title never appears.

If I go to the examples which are also in the same directory they work fine!

I am having a hard time why <?php echo $current_song; ?> is not returning no information.

Better yet I would LOVE a graphic like you have in your tagline. Any way I can do that?

Any help you can give would be appreciated.

[Jay]

are you include function and $current_song variable next to each other. Premade scripts have a tenacy of bring things in and out of scope which could be causing a problem if your echo is inside of a class or function and your include directive is not, or vice versa.

If there is a header.php file or a header file that is being parsed by php I would use that.

As for the image it's a home brew, but I have an early version of it at www.radiotoolbox.com/codebed/radiotoolbox/

This new one below has additional features beyond that one like image resizing which I just added today (and looks pretty nifty if I say so myself)

I plan on making a more user definable version of it soon to replace that early one in the code bed.

[Scott Greczkowski]

Thanks for your ideas, I will have to try them tommorow, as fas as your graphic, whats the command line you are using in your signature to make it appear?

Thanks for your help.

[Jay]

just used the BBCode IMG tag surrouding the url to the script.

like

[IMG]http://someserver.com/whatimplayin.php[/IMG]