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+<?php
+    // This file plays the mediafile set in lesson settings
+    // Almost all of this code is from /mod/resource/type/file/resource.class.php so major props for resource
+    // If there is a way to use the resource class instead of this code, please change to do so
+    // because I could not figure it out
+
+    require_once('../../config.php');
+    require_once($CFG->libdir.'/filelib.php');
+    
+    $id = required_param('id', PARAM_INT);    // Course Module ID
+    
+    if (! $cm = get_record('course_modules', 'id', $id)) {
+        error('Course Module ID was incorrect');
+    }
+
+    if (! $course = get_record('course', 'id', $cm->course)) {
+        error('Course is misconfigured');
+    }
+
+    if (! $lesson = get_record('lesson', 'id', $cm->instance)) {
+        error('Course module is incorrect');
+    }
+
+    require_login($course->id, false, $cm);
+    
+    print_header();
+    
+    // get the mimetype
+    $path_parts = pathinfo($lesson->mediafile);
+    $mimetype = mimeinfo("type", $path_parts['basename']);
+
+    if (substr_count($lesson->mediafile, '//') == 1) {
+        // OK, taking a leap of faith here.  We are assuming that teachers are cool
+        // and thus the mediafile is a url
+        $fullurl = $lesson->mediafile;        
+    } else {
+        // get the full url to the file while taking into consideration $CFG->slasharguments    
+        if ($CFG->slasharguments) {
+            $relativeurl = "/file.php/{$course->id}/{$lesson->mediafile}";
+        } else {
+            $relativeurl = "/file.php?file=/{$course->id}/{$lesson->mediafile}";
+        }
+        $fullurl = "$CFG->wwwroot$relativeurl";
+    }
+
+    // find the correct type and print it out
+    if ($mimetype == "audio/mp3") {    // It's an MP3 audio file
+    
+        if (!empty($THEME->resource_mp3player_colors)) {
+            $c = $THEME->resource_mp3player_colors;   // You can set this up in your theme/xxx/config.php
+        } else {
+            $c = 'bgColour=000000&btnColour=ffffff&btnBorderColour=cccccc&iconColour=000000&'.
+                 'iconOverColour=00cc00&trackColour=cccccc&handleColour=ffffff&loaderColour=ffffff&'.
+                 'font=Arial&fontColour=3333FF&buffer=10&waitForPlay=no&autoPlay=yes';
+        }
+        $c .= '&volText='.get_string('vol', 'resource').'&panText='.get_string('pan','resource');
+        $c = htmlentities($c);
+        echo '<div class="mp3player" align="center">';
+        echo '<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"';
+        echo '        codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" ';
+        echo '        width="600" height="70" id="mp3player" align="">';
+        echo '<param name="movie" value="'.$CFG->wwwroot.'/lib/mp3player/mp3player.swf?src='.$fullurl.'">';
+        echo '<param name="quality" value="high">';
+        echo '<param name="bgcolor" value="#333333">';
+        echo '<param name="flashvars" value="'.$c.'&amp;" />';
+        echo '<embed src="'.$CFG->wwwroot.'/lib/mp3player/mp3player.swf?src='.$fullurl.'" ';
+        echo ' quality="high" bgcolor="#333333" width="600" height="70" name="mp3player" ';
+        echo ' type="application/x-shockwave-flash" ';
+        echo ' flashvars="'.$c.'&amp;" ';
+        echo ' pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">';
+        echo '</embed>';
+        echo '</object>';
+        echo '</div>';
+
+    } else if (substr($mimetype, 0, 10) == "video/x-ms") {   // It's a Media Player file
+    
+        echo "<center><p>";
+        echo '<object classid="CLSID:22D6f312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"';
+        echo '        codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701" ';
+        echo '        standby="Loading Microsoft® Windows® Media Player components..." ';
+        echo '        id="msplayer" align="" type="application/x-oleobject">';
+        echo "<param name=\"Filename\" value=\"$fullurl\">";
+        echo '<param name="ShowControls" value="true" />';
+        echo '<param name="AutoRewind" value="true" />';
+        echo '<param name="AutoStart" value="true" />';
+        echo '<param name="Autosize" value="true" />';
+        echo '<param name="EnableContextMenu" value="true" />';
+        echo '<param name="TransparentAtStart" value="false" />';
+        echo '<param name="AnimationAtStart" value="false" />';
+        echo '<param name="ShowGotoBar" value="false" />';
+        echo '<param name="EnableFullScreenControls" value="true" />';
+        echo "\n<embed src=\"$fullurl\" name=\"msplayer\" type=\"$mimetype\" ";
+        echo ' ShowControls="1" AutoRewind="1" AutoStart="1" Autosize="0" EnableContextMenu="1"';
+        echo ' TransparentAtStart="0" AnimationAtStart="0" ShowGotoBar="0" EnableFullScreenControls="1"';
+        echo ' pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/">';
+        echo '</embed>';
+        echo '</object>';
+        echo "</p></center>";
+
+    } else if ($mimetype == "video/quicktime") {   // It's a Quicktime file
+    
+        echo "<center><p>";
+        echo '<object classid="CLSID:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"';
+        echo '        codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" ';
+        echo '        height="450" width="600"';
+        echo '        id="quicktime" align="" type="application/x-oleobject">';
+        echo "<param name=\"src\" value=\"$fullurl\" />";
+        echo '<param name="autoplay" value="true" />';
+        echo '<param name="loop" value="true" />';
+        echo '<param name="controller" value="true" />';
+        echo '<param name="scale" value="aspect" />';
+        echo "\n<embed src=\"$fullurl\" name=\"quicktime\" type=\"$mimetype\" ";
+        echo ' height="450" width="600" scale="aspect"';
+        echo ' autoplay="true" controller="true" loop="true" ';
+        echo ' pluginspage="http://quicktime.apple.com/">';
+        echo '</embed>';
+        echo '</object>';
+        echo "</p></center>";
+    
+    } else if ($mimetype == "application/x-shockwave-flash") {   // It's a flash file
+    
+        error('Flash is not supported yet');
+    
+    } else if ($mimetype == "audio/x-pn-realaudio") {   // It's a realmedia file
+    	
+		echo '<object id="rvocx" classid="clsid:CFCDAA03-8BE4-11cf-B84B-0020AFBBCCFA" width="600" height="50">';
+        echo "<param name=\"src\" value=\"$fullurl\">";
+        echo '<param name="console" value="video">';  // not sure what the console param should equal
+        echo '<param name="controls" value="ControlPanel">';
+        echo '<param name="autostart" value="true">';
+        echo '<param name="loop" value="true">';
+        echo '<embed name="rvocx" src="'.$fullurl.'" height="50" width="600" autostart="true" loop="true" nojava="true" console="video" controls="ControlPanel"></embed>';
+        echo '<noembed></noembed>';
+        echo '</object>';
+
+    } else {
+        error('Unsupported mime type: '.$mimetype);
+    }
+?>
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