I just convinced my client to use popup B) 8 hours of test/search lost

But maybe we could continue the discussion about having a solution to be able to play the JWPlayer Module externally.

After my series of test, I think the best approach would be to use the module renderer. I have not been able to make it show the module correctly but it show the module html.

I just need to find how to "include" the JWPlayer code.

Here's how I'm trying it. It's just a test from examples I have found. I'm not sure what I have to include,

// Set flag that this is a parent file

define( '_JEXEC', 1 );



define('JPATH_BASE', '/home/mudh/public_html/cloneA/');



define( 'DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR );



require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'defines.php' );

require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'framework.php' );

require_once(JPATH_BASE .DS.'components'.DS.'com_muscol'.DS.'models'.DS.'album.php');

require_once(JPATH_BASE .DS.'components'.DS.'com_muscol'.DS.'helpers'.DS.'helpers.php');





require_once(JPATH_BASE .DS.'modules'.DS.'mod_muscol_jwplayer'.DS.'helper.php');

//require_once ('/home/mudh/public_html/cloneA/modules/mod_muscol_jwplayer/helper.php');

jimport('joomla.application.module.helper');

jimport('joomla.plugin.helper');





$mainframe =& JFactory::getApplication('site');





$modules = JModuleHelper::getModules('user4');

$document   = JFactory::getDocument();	

$renderer   = $document->loadRenderer('module');

$params = array('style'=>$style);

$contents = '';

foreach( $modules As $mod ){

    $contents .= $renderer->render($mod, $params);

}



echo $contents;

That should render my JW Player Module placed in user4 position. It work a bit but I only get the "Show PLayer in Popup" link...

Any ideas about what I need to add so the jwplayer appear?

I did something like this using a different cms before. I haven't tried it with joomla. The main concern is whether the user will stay logged in and the sessions will carry over using frames.

The main thing I had to do to get this to work on another music app was to make sure I set the name and ids for the frames. Most programs just call to open a new popup window without giving it a unique name to load in, so I had to change the target command to match that of the frame name and id, so something like target="_musicframe" instead of the usual target="_blank"

I would assume you could get something like this to work in MC. First the jw module would have to be modified so it only works in popup mode and the jw module flash player does not load on the page. So anytime a song is sent to it, it first checks to see if the popup window is available and if not triggers the popup. This would make it so it only loads songs in the stand alone popup and not on the jw module on the page. The player page would also need to be set to target the name of the frame instead of just a new popup.

I wouldn't use anything like this for a public site that I am trying to get hits on as it would be a nightmare for seo and sef links, but it would rock for a personal private site to just listen to music.