NYCPHP Meetup

[Scott Mattocks]

Disclaimer: I haven't read the entire thread and I don't have exact details.

I was at ZendCon last week and one of the presenters on Ajax stuff used 
a PHP/Ajax script that allowed him to change the slides in everyone 
else's browser as they followed along with the presentation. I don't 
remember who exactly or the name of the script he was using. Nor am I 
really sure if this is what you are looking for because, as I said 
above, I haven't read the thread. Anyway, the ZendCon site might be able 
to help you out.

Scott Mattocks

P Yurt wrote:
> Allen
> 
> I say, let us know how it goes and good luck! 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org
> [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On
> Behalf Of Allen Shaw
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 11:34 AM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: [nycphp-talk] [OT] slidePresenter (was: live slide-show
> delivery
> viabrowser only)
> 
> Thanks everyone for a good discussion on this thread.  I've
> decided to 
> go ahead and build this myself, because I just haven't been able
> to find 
> anything like it, and I believe I can write it well enough to
> suit my 
> needs: simple support for real-time slide presentations with
> only a web 
> browser.
> 
> I also imagine it would be useful for others, though perhaps
> others 
> would want features I'm not planning at the outset. So, for
> whatever 
> it's worth, I've given it a name, slidePresenter, and will
> release it 
> under an open source license.
> 
> Anyone who's interested can see more at the project blog: 
> http://slides.sourceforge.net
> 
> This is the first project I've started that's intended from the 
> beginning to be open source, so it looks like it will be a lot
> of fun 
> and quite educational.
> 
> If anyone thinks it's worth mentioning, I'll be happy to report
> back 
> here once actual code (PHP) is ready for release.  In the mean
> time, 
> please let me hear whatever comments you may have, either by
> email 
> off-list, or via the blog.
> 
> Thanks,
> Allen
> 
> 
> Timothy Boyden wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 

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Scott Mattocks
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