adobe flash required message

[canemasters]

Wow, this is really lame. I've tried the suggestions listed on this page, and noting is working. It simply wont load an alternate image if flash is not installed. I've tried the <noscript> function, but nothing is working. I'm thinking about taking the flash out of the site entirely. I'm not about to loose customers just because they don't have flash installed. @#*@!! It took me 2 weeks to finish that header!

[canemasters]

Okay, I found a site that is working exactly how I want it to. If a user doesn't have flash, a little popup appears from adobe asking them to install flash.

http://www.moock.org/webdesign/flash...fpi/movie.html

BUT IT'S FOR HTML!!! DOH! There aren't any php instructions.

[canemasters]

WOOHOO! FIXED IT!

Used this code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="includes/templates/canemasters/jscript/swfobject.js"></script>
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="includes/templates/canemasters/images/flash/header.swf" width="800" height="185">
<param name="movie" value="includes/templates/canemasters/images/flash/header.swf" />
<img src="includes/templates/canemasters/images/header.jpg" width="800" height="185" alt="header" title="header"/></object>

Now I just have to include an image map for the .jpg header
I've done that before though.

[canemasters]

Just a follow up for anybody needing this info:

I basically wanted to have a flash header, but for those people who did not have flash, I wanted a .jpg version of the header to show up. It wouldn't be as functional, but it's still better than nothing. I also needed to use an image map with the .jpg to make everything clickable. Here's how I did it. Make sure you are using overides on the tpl_header.php file!!!

<script type="text/javascript" src="includes/templates/canemasters/jscript/swfobject.js"></script>
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="includes/templates/canemasters/images/flash/header.swf" width="800" height="185">
<param name="movie" value="includes/templates/canemasters/images/flash/header.swf" />
<img src="includes/templates/canemasters/images/header.jpg" border="0" width="800" height="185" ISMAP USEMAP="#headermap"/></object>


<map id ="headermap"
name="headermap">
<area shape="poly" coords="48,6,39,31,122,31,131,6" href="index.php" title="" />
<area shape="poly" coords="138,6,129,31,213,31,222,5,138,5" href="index.php?main_page=page&id=3&chapter=0" title="" />
<area shape="poly" coords="228,5,312,5,302,33,218,33" href="index.php?main_page=page&id=4&chapter=0" title="" />
<area shape="poly" coords="318,5,402,5,392,32,308,32" href="index.php?main_page=page&id=20&chapter=0" title="" />
<area shape="poly" coords="407,5,493,5,482,32,398,32" href="index.php?main_page=page&id=7&chapter=0" title="" />
<area shape="poly" coords="497,6,581,6,571,32,488,32" href="index.php?main_page=page&id=13&chapter=0" title="" />
<area shape="poly" coords="587,5,673,5,662,33,578,33" href="index.php?main_page=contact_us" title="" />
<area shape="poly" coords="679,6,761,6,751,32,668,32" href="index.php?main_page=login&zenid=e1cdb7491df4***193c7f9c6f3fcbd" title="" />
</map>


Should help anybody wanting to do the same thing.

Good luck!

[gjh42]

It's good to see this laid out in full - thanks for posting.

One comment: you should not have a zenid hardcoded in the login link.