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[Timothy Boyden]

Allen,

I've never see a slide show application that does what you want to do short
of a WebEx or Windows NetMeeting presentation.

The rough approach I would take to your problem would be:

1) Create authentication code to determine slide show viewer or presenter

2) Create code to display the current slide as determined by a value in a
flat text file or database

3) Create code to update the flat file or database to set the current slide
(slide control buttons only visible to the presenter)

4) Create code to refresh the slide display page if there is a change in the
flat file or database

Most likely you'd populate an array with the slides in the order you want
them shown and page back and forth through the array with the slide control
buttons.

I'm a Network Administrator that sometimes wears the intermediate web
programmer hat and this would undoubtedly be the simple approach to this
issue. I'm sure there's some AJAX method of doing this in the way that you
describe, but that's beyond my current skill set.

Cheers,

Tim Boyden



> From: Allen Shaw <ashaw at polymerdb.org>
> Reply-To: NYPHP Talk <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
> Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:45:54 -0600
> To: NYPHP Talk <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] [OT] live slide-show delivery via browser only
> 
> Hi Ed,
> 
> Yeah, I know.  That's what I was thinking, too: this ought to exist. I
> did google around quite a bit, but all I'm finding are apps to help me
> put up a slideshow that the user pages through himself (for example,
> SlideshowPro and others).  What I really need, though, is the ability to
> let the *presenter* control the advance of the slides in
> real time, as you would do in a meeting with people.
> 
> If I could find this existing, it would be a great thing.  I'd rather
> not create something from scratch if I can avoid it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Allen
> 
> edward potter wrote:
>> I suspect dozens of php slideshow applications out there, sorry I
>> don't have the links, however Google  is your friend on this one.
>> 
>> If you really want to do it right, Flash is probably your best bet,
>> people have been doing this for year in Actionscript and have put
>> together some very sophisticated applications that are way beyond what
>> you can do with php/js.
>> 
>> for example:
>> 
>> http://www.slideshowpro.net/
>> 
>> :-)  ed
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 11/3/06, charlie wang <natrindex at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> I use a slide show package to have live stock chart on my site. It migt not
>>> be the one you are looking for:
>>> http://www.nutraceuticalforums.com/slideShow/index.php
>>> If interested, you can find a link to the original package over there.
>>> 
>>> Charlie.
>>> 
>>> 
> 
> -- 
> Allen Shaw
> Polymer (http://polymerdb.org)
> 
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