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Hi Guys,
could someone help me with the following:
I am trying to embed a swf file in my index.php template page and when i browse my wordpress in my browser it doesn’t load. the code i have is below on my index.php file.
<div id=”contentflash”><OBJECT classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″
codebase=”;http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0″
WIDTH=”439″ HEIGHT=”450″>
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE=”images/agfpicshow.swf”>
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=”high”>
<PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=”transparent”>
<EMBED src=”images/agfpicshow.swf” WIDTH=”439″ HEIGHT=”450″ ALIGN=”” quality=”high” WMODE=”transparent” TYPE=”application/x-shockwave-flash”
PLUGINSPAGE=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer” movie=”images/agfpicshow.swf”></EMBED>
</OBJECT>
</div>
Help appreciated
Rob
where is the .swf located in relation to the theme?
images/agfpicshow.swf
use the right path, or use a url. your profile says youre a web developer?
Hi
the swf file is located in images/ which resides in the theme folder with the index.php file.
Ive tried full path and it still doesn’t work i wondered if there was a problem with swf and the OBJECT in wordpress??
Rob
no, millions (im sure) of wordpress blogs use flash just fine. 🙂
I should point out also, that embed is deprecated, but then, you should know that. Thats not the problem, but still.
I would love to see an example of a flash object not working when using the full url, btw. If you decide to share the url, Ill stop back.
The url to my flash file is”
http://www.robsteele.co.uk/worddemo_site/wordpress/agfpicshow.swf
Problem i have is it works fine in the index.html but the wordpress index.php, im new to wordpress.
remove “images”. it’s not in your “images” directory.
I have changed and still not loading if i right click on the div the movie says not loaded??i have tried this on my other site and it works ok is this a wordpress thing or a setting below ive missed??
<div id=”contentflash”><OBJECT classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″
codebase=”;http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0″
WIDTH=”439″ HEIGHT=”450″>
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE=”agfpicshow.swf”>
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=”high”>
<PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=”transparent”>
<EMBED src=”agfpicshow.swf” WIDTH=”439″ HEIGHT=”450″ ALIGN=”” quality=”high” WMODE=”transparent” TYPE=”application/x-shockwave-flash”
PLUGINSPAGE=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer” movie=”agfpicshow.swf”></EMBED>
</OBJECT>
</div>
I’m still showing that the “images/” is still there. Did you save your file and upload it to overwrite the old? Maybe your host caches stuff for you and you have to wait a bit. But when you view the source code, the “images/” is still there.
Seems to be cached but i have checked and even without images/ i still get now flash movie is this something that is to do with the index.php page in my themes folder?
is working now I have produced the code below if anyone else needs it.
<object data=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/agendaforchildren.swf”
type=”application/x-shockwave-flash”
width=”434″ height=”390″>
<param name=”movie” value=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’);
?>/agendaforchildren.swf” />
<param name=”menu” value=”false” />
<param name=”wmode” value=”transparent” />
<param name=”quality” value=”best” />
</object>
hey robsteele,
i tried your code, i tried swfobject javascript, i tried kimili embed, and a couple of widgets but nothing works, not to mention the original adobe code generated by flash.. so now i’m wondering, i must be doing something fundamentally wrong, what do you think it is?? i tried to link the swf object absolutely and relatively, i tried to put it in the root folder, in the blog folder, in the images folder and nothing works. there must be something i’m missing, and i can’t figure out what. does anything come to mind?
