Play Sound after X Seconds? [Archive]

peterallcdn

06-25-2006, 10:41 AM

Hello,

I have built an admin area for employees of a business. Once logged-in, if they sit idle for 5 minutes their session will be killed ( the time may vary depending on the employee ). I do all this with php but don't really know much about javascript.

What I would like to do is start playing a small sound repeatedly when the employees session is about 30 seconds from expiring. ( this will give the employee time to click on a link to keep their session alive )

So when the page loads, I would like to pass a length of time in seconds to a javascript. So if the employee can sit idle for 5 minutes, that would be 300 seconds. Minus the 30 seconds that I would like the alarm to be playing for which gives us 270 seconds. ( I'll pass this number to the script with PHP, the script does not have to figure this out... just to be clear. )

So I'm looking for something like this:
- On page load, tell javascript to count down a specific number of seconds ( 270 )
- When the countdown reaches 0, start playing sound file repeatedly.

Sounds easy enough but I haven't been able to find anything like this yet. The only ones I've seen actually display the countdown which I don't want. I want this to count down invisibly. Oh and it should hopefully work in both IE and Firefox.

Thanks for any and all help!!

peterallcdn

vwphillips

06-25-2006, 03:05 PM

dont do sound but

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title></title>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
/*<![CDATA[*/
function zxcEventAdd(zxco,zxct,zxcf) {
if ( zxco.addEventListener ){ zxco.addEventListener(zxct, function(e){ zxco[zxcf](e);}, false); }
else if ( zxco.attachEvent ){ zxco.attachEvent('on'+zxct,function(e){ zxco[zxcf](e); }); }
else {
var zxcPrev=zxco["on" + zxct];
if (zxcPrev){ zxco['on'+zxct]=function(e){ zxcPrev(e); zxco[zxcf](e); }; }
else { zxco['on'+zxct]=zxco[zxcf]; }
}
}

var zxcEvt=0;

function zxcAddEvt(zxco,zxcfun,zxcevt){
if (zxco['zxc'+zxcfun+zxcevt]){ return; }
zxco['zxcaddEvt'+zxcEvt]=window[zxcfun];
zxco['zxc'+zxcfun+zxcevt]=true;
zxcEventAdd(zxco,zxcevt,'zxcaddEvt'+zxcEvt);
zxcEvt++;
}

var zxcDly=1*60*1000; // 1 minute
var zxcTO;

function zxcTimer(){
clearTimeout(zxcTO);
zxcTO=setTimeout('MyFunction()',zxcDly);
}

zxcAddEvt(document,'zxcTimer','mousemove');

function MyFunction(){
alert('Time Out');
}

/*]]>*/
</script></head>

<body>

</body>

</html>