PHP, Chromium and VLC [Solved]

Question

Hello
I made little web based (PHP) library of my multimedia files, but i need one thing to fulfill it
is there anyway to launch my vlc player?
I know there is way how to launch Ubuntu Software Center in Ubuntu via web-link, so i think there must be a way to do the same with VLC....
Thanks for suggestions :-)
SOLUTION:
Squirrel wrote:
oh, i founded it, FINALLY, so thanks from all that they helped me, there is final solution:
at first, you must allow to apache (for me user "http") to access your x-server, so I used this:
xhost +local:http
xhost is utility to set access rules to x-server, local means that it will only acept localhost and http is obviously the user.
and now we can choose:
1) pure PHP:
<?php exec("vlc"); ?>
2) cgi script:
test.html
<object data="./cgi-bin/runVLC.cgi"></object>
./cgi-bin/runVLC.cgi
#!/bin/bash
vlc
both ways worked for me and launched my VLC player, thanks for help
Last edited by SquirrelCZECH (2012-01-04 19:58:45)

Answer 1

Oops ... how'd I not finish that tag.  Friends don't let friends code drunk.
There are many good sites out there for cgi-scripting.  I'm a *complete* noob on this stuff though.  I just recently set up a LAMP on my home computer just to tinker and learn.  I followed the arch wiki to the letter and it went pretty smoothly.  I haven't had much time to experiment or learn much yet - but when I saw this thread I figured I'd give it a shot.  It did work on my system, but as they say, even a blind mouse will find the cheese once and a while.
I can't really give much guidance except to say it can be done.  One thing that may be relevant is that (I believe) the server needs to be restarted before the cgi script will run.
I'm sure there are many experienced people here who can give better insights into exactly what configs to check and what needs to be running.