New Entry In DB Sound Alert

The Mighty Dubs · 25-05-2006 02:38PM #1

Hi,

I wonder is it possible to give a sound (be it mp3 or wav or whatever) everytime an new entry appears on a dynamic webpage. I currently have a help desk type page set up that refreshes every 30 seconds. Is it possible to have an audible alert when a new entry arrives???

Rollo Tamasi · 25-05-2006 03:05PM

it certainly is possible with AJAX anyway because within gmail when you receive an instant message you get the same "bleep" sound as you get when you receive a instant message from the program. I wouldn't have a notion about AJAX myself though

seamus · 25-05-2006 03:08PM

A simple solution may be embedding the sound in the web page if a new item has appeared in the list, then set the sound to play once when the page has loaded.

The Mighty Dubs · 25-05-2006 03:33PM

seamus wrote:

A simple solution may be embedding the sound in the web page if a new item has appeared in the list, then set the sound to play once when the page has loaded.

I dont think that will work properly because when the page automatically refreshes every 30 seconds and I dont want the alert to be going off every 30 seconds only when a new entry is added...if you get my drift

Gosh · 25-05-2006 03:37PM

If it's a dynamic page then you would only include the sound play on "<body onLoad=" if you had new items in the list

seamus · 25-05-2006 03:44PM

The Mighty Dubs wrote:

I dont think that will work properly because when the page automatically refreshes every 30 seconds and I dont want the alert to be going off every 30 seconds only when a new entry is added...if you get my drift

What Gosh said. You only embed the sound if there is a new entry in the list.

If you're wondering how to find out that there is a new entry in the list, then you're best to use cookies. You store a cookie on the machine that holds the date/time that the page was last loaded on that machine. If there are items that have been added after that date/time, then you embed the sound. If not, the sound doesn't get embedded. Then you reset the cookie to store the current date/time.

That's just a simple way. There are better ways.

Gosh · 25-05-2006 04:06PM

Another method would be to throw up an alert on page load as follows

<script type="text/javascript">
function NewItems()
{
alert("There are new items on this page");
}
</script>

<body onLoad="NewItems()">

As said before only include the onLoad if you know there are new items. (In IE you get a sound as well when this box is displayed)

New Entry In DB Sound Alert

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