This may be the most unusual plugin customization request I’ve seen on the forums so far!
This can be done, though not through a simple change in the code. The problem is, you have no mechanism for tracking which line was last displayed.
{thinking out loud} One way of doing this is to add a record in the options table that keeps track of the line. The plugin would read in the value from the option, select the line, increment the value and reset the option. It also needs to be reinitialized when it reaches the last line in the lyrics.
Interested?
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Kahil
(@kahil)
OK…maybe I shoulda mentioned that I’m not all that great with the code thing like that…You’re gonna have to speak english…lol…sorry…
Continuing Kafka’s line of thought…
And you have to track it per user, preferably through cookies which WordPress already uses.
Kahil> You’re gonna have to speak english…lol.
Or you gonna have to speak green 😉
I did note I was {thinking out loud}. :) Simply put, here is what you’re asking for the plugin to do:
Step 1. Read the $lyrics.
Step 2. Print the first line from the $lyrics.
Step 3. Remember that you printed the first line, so you can print the second line the next time you run.
Step 4. Increment line count, rinse, lather and repeat.
There is nothing in a PHP script (which is all a plugin file really is) on its own which lets it get past Step 3. What’s needed is some way to retain the information about the last line displayed. One way to do that in WordPress is to add a custom record to the options table (i.e. in the database). That’s what my foreign text above is recommending.
angsuman, good point. Or if we make it a 2.0-only mod, we can stick it in usermeta. 🙂
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Kahil
(@kahil)
woah…
i was just asking of anyone knew a simple way or hack to get this to happen…
I’m sorry I’m no code expert… but please remember that not everyone has the same knowledge of the code as others…
If there isn’t a way to get it done with ‘Hello Dolly’, is there another plugin that this can be done in?
Thank you
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Kahil
(@kahil)
Thank you Kafkaesqui, that makes more sense…
If I’m understanding correctly, you are saying that this can’t be done yet?
“If I’m understanding correctly, you are saying that this can’t be done yet?“
When I believe that about a project, I would never put it vaguely. This is more of a you may not be able to do this with a simple change of the code, but it can be done type of situation. Hence the original “Interested?” query.
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Kahil
(@kahil)
oh…
Thank you again Kafkaesqui, hopefully someone can/will figure that out and share it with everyone…
@kafka
Do tell me more about the usermeta thingy. Where can I get more information on it?
