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30 Dec 2008, 8:22 AM
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How to put Flash Slideshow Movie on Main Page?

Hi,

I'm trying to put a flash slideshow movie onto my main page.

I've looked around but could only find solutions to inputting it to headers and etc.

These are the files from my slideshow:

movie (Main folder)
->fs_aux.html
->movie.html
->movie.swf
->slides.xml
->->-res (folder)
-empty
->->-slides (folder)
-images
->->-thumbs (folder
-thumbnail images

I have tried implementing the following code in define pages editor - "define_main_page.php"

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="includes/templates/zj_silver_wide/images/movie/movie.swf" width="100%" height="337"> <param name="movie" value="includes/templates/zj_silver_wide/images/movie/movie.swf" /> <param name="quality" value="high"><param name="BGCOLOR" value="#000000"> <param name="menu" value="false"> </object>

I have placed the files in the above paths as well in my website folder.

All I get on my main page is a "LOAD FAIL"

Could anyone help me out with this issue?
Have I place the files in the wrong folder?
Am I missing something?

Thank you everyone for your help.

Link to my webpage HERE

31 Dec 2008, 6:45 PM
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Re: How to put Flash Slideshow Movie on Main Page?

Looks like you figured it out. Looks NICE in IE7
JOhn ><>

31 Dec 2008, 8:39 PM
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Re: How to put Flash Slideshow Movie on Main Page?

Flash works fine in IE7, fails via firefox...
Check paths and coding..
Small spelling mistake on front page image
i.e.
guarantee NOT gaurantee..

2 Jan 2009, 7:47 AM
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Re: How to put Flash Slideshow Movie on Main Page?

Yes I figured it out, for some reason it was not working because I uploaded it to the images file within my template folder like the ZenCart Wikipedia suggests. Instead I uploaded to the public_html images folder and the flash appears to be working perfectly in Firefox and IE.

Thanks for the compliment, and thank you for the spell check!

Cheers
:bigups:

10 Dec 2009, 1:52 AM
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Re: How to put Flash Slideshow Movie on Main Page?

i also had the problem and haven't found a solution yet, so every time i use iwisoft swf to flv converter to change swf as flv, then upload to Youtube and embed the code to my site, but this may have the disturbing of copyright issue, so i also use flowplayer which is free. if your swf file is made by yourself everything will be fine!

8 Feb 2010, 11:29 AM
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Re: How to put Flash Slideshow Movie on Main Page?

Maybe U can use FlashSlideVidShow by geovid. It can put your slideshow on webpages or play in offline flash player.

18 Feb 2010, 4:28 PM
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Re: How to put Flash Slideshow Movie on Main Page?

I had the same problem and then found an essential piece of information that solved this problem for FireFox.

FireFox does not read parameter tags. Instead it wants the embed tag.

So you'll need both sets for IE and for FireFox.

18 Feb 2010, 5:39 PM
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Re: How to put Flash Slideshow Movie on Main Page?

Adobe provides a free script called AC_FL_RunActiveContent.js that solves many of the problems of embedding swf players into web pages. It detects the browser and version and automagically spits out the proper html to embed your content properly.

An example of using it is:

	<div id="video4zenWrapper">
	<script type="text/javascript">
	AC_FL_RunContent(
	'class','video4zen',
	'width','400',
	'height','226',
	'allowFullScreen','false',
	'data','/ZCplayer/zencartvideoplayer.swf',
	'type','application/x-shockwave-flash',
	'movie','/ZCplayer/zencartvideoplayer',
	'wmode','transparent',
	'flashvars','flv=<?php echo "/" . $movie; ?>&configxml=/ZCplayer/config.xml' ); //end AC code
	</script>
	</div> <!-- end of video4zenWrapper -->
5 Mar 2010, 11:58 AM
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Re: How to put Flash Slideshow Movie on Main Page?

How did you end up adding the Flash Slideshow to your main page? I can't figure it out!