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How to stop autoplay on a page revisit

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  • Dave Williams 13 years ago

    Hi…

    Is there a way to stop a video from playing that has been set to autoplay when a visitor bounces around a website and then returns to the page where they have already viewed the video.

    Normally a cookie is set to indicate that the video has already been viewed and so do not play the video again.

    thx.. dave

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  • zdenka 13 years ago

    Hi Dave,

    yes, that would be one of the options how something like this can be done. However this is not included in our plugin.
    So far there are no plans of including something like this in the near future.

    Zdenka

    Dave Williams 13 years ago

    Hi Zdenka… nice to hear from you again.

    Can you give me an idea where I might start developing a cookie?

    I’ll look for some javascript and after I discover what may work, where would it be inserted in the plugin to stop autoplay on a page revisit?

    thx… dave

    Dave Williams 13 years ago

    Hi again…

    After a little research I’ve found that I can set a cookie in WP for a new visitor if I place the following code in my theme’s functions.php file…

    // Set cookie for new user
    function set_newuser_cookie() {
    if (!isset($_COOKIE)) {
    setcookie(‘newvisitor’, 1, time()+86400, COOKIEPATH, COOKIE_DOMAIN, false);
    }
    }
    add_action( ‘init’, ‘set_newuser_cookie’);

    To access the cookie and stop autoplay for a returning visitor where would I place something like the following in Flowplayer…

    if (isset($_COOKIE)) {
    echo ‘don’t play video’;
    }
    else {
    echo ‘play video the first time’;
    }

    thx… dave

    zdenka 13 years ago

    Hi Dave,

    I’m happy to hear that you figured this out until I got back to you. To finish the job you can probably use this condition to set autoplay to the desired value around lines 47-48 in models/flowplayer-frontend.php

    You will need to set it to $autoplay=’false’ – with those quotes around, as this needs to be string, later in the code it is being pasted into the flowplayer code.

    Zdenka

    Brandon 12 years ago

    I got it working by creating a plugin that uses a custom shortcode to call the FV WordPress Flowplayer shortcode. My short code looks for the new user cookie to determine whether or not to add the autoplay command Here is my plugin file:

    Use this shortcode on your page/post: [spokesmodel src=’http://cdn.example.com/myfile.flv’ width=152 height=368 ]

    <?php
    /*
    Plugin Name: Spokesmodel Settings
    Plugin URI: http://sample.com
    Description: Plugin to display the talking spokesmodel
    Version: 1.0
    Author: Brandon
    Author URI: http://example.com
    License: All Rights Reserved
    */

    ///SET NEW USER COOKIE
    function set_newuser_cookie() {
    if (!isset($_COOKIE)) {
    setcookie(‘tic_new_visitor’, 1, time()+86400, COOKIEPATH, COOKIE_DOMAIN, false);
    }
    }
    add_action( ‘init’, ‘set_newuser_cookie’);

    add_shortcode( ‘spokesmodel’, ‘spokesmodelShortCode’ );

    function spokesmodelShortCode($atts) {
    $src = $atts;
    $height = $atts;
    $width = $atts;
    $autoplay = $atts;
    $splash = $atts;

    if(!$src){return false;}

    $atts_output = ”;
    if($src){$atts_output .= ” src=’$src'”;}
    if($height){$atts_output .= ” height=$height”;}
    if($width){$atts_output .= ” width=$width”;}
    if($splash){$atts_output .= ” splash=’$splash'”;}
    if($autoplay){$atts_output .= ” autoplay=$autoplay”;}
    else{
    if (isset($_COOKIE)) {
    $atts_output .= ” autoplay=false”;
    }
    else {
    $atts_output .= ” autoplay=true”;
    }
    }

    $atts_output .= ” splashend=show'”;

    return do_shortcode(“[fvplayer $atts_output]“);

    }

    ?>

    Martin 12 years ago

    Hello Brandon,

    thank you for posting your valuable code!

    Unfortunately I can’t test it right now as I’m leaving on a vacation.

    I have a suggestion if you need to use this with a caching plugin (Hyper Cache) – I would recommend that you set the cookie using JavaScript and then add the cookie into exclusion list in your WP caching plugin. That way at least the first load of the post can go from cache.

    Thanks,
    Martin

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