flash xml question

This is what I've put in the content of the front_page.

The file loads correctly if I go to to the flash file url directly rather than through the main front page. As to the loadVAR in the swf file, I'm not sure. I had someone do the flash for me. But as I said, it works if I look at the .swf file directly on the server, just not through the front page. I'm not sure if that makes a lot of sense. I only know enough to make myself dangerous, learning as I go;)

Thanks,
Lisa

This is what I've put in the content of the front_page.

When you do a View Source of the front page in the browser and look at the HTML do you see that markup you just posted ?

Caroline

I don't really understand all that stuff to be honest. But I'll try and break it down. I can't post the url because it's in a password protected area, so I'll just use generic ones.

If I go to www.mydomain.com/files/flash/slider2.swf
the flash looks as it should, it loads the images from data.xml and it works correctly, slide show, etc.

the data.xml file is this;

if I go to www.mydomain.com the flash is in the content of the front page, ie. in the admin/settings/front_page, I put the html code as you saw above that embedded the flash. This loads up the slider2.swf but it's "empty" in that it shows my slider buttons and transition item,but not the images, that the data.xml file refers to. The flash and other text copy is inside a table. I just put all that code in the front_page section in admin.

No error in any of the logs is showing. Hopefully that helps. I really appreciate all the responses:)

rz

Do you think there's a way though to use both front-page and SWFObject modules at the same time ?

Lisa, if you use SWFObject, you will need to download a file from an external web site (other than this one) and unzip it and copy a javascript file in your Drupal folder, in the /sites/default/modules/swfobject/js/ folder.

Then you can "place" that block which will contain your Flash object in the "content" area, and give it a light "weight" so that it stays on top (the block).

Then you can control on which page that block will be shown. You can select <front> for Front (or Home) page.

As far as I know, with SWFObject you can only put SWFObject in a block, which is great actually, then place that block anywhere on the page.

I can embed regular .swf file no problem. It's the xml part that is not working within drupal. So I installed this module and it's doing the same thing. The flash slide show without the xml called images shows. And with this method as a block, I can't see how to put it in context with the rest of my copy on my front page. Although I'm sure there's a way to call the block within the page content. But still overall, it didn't solve my problem.

I put the javascript up on the server, installed the swfobject module.
I put code in my page for the front_page;

which brought up nothing, not even the space for the flash, like nothing was even put there.

Then I tried it by creating a block and the same thing happened as what was happening originally, the .swf file shows without the images from the xml file.

At my wit's end and I need to complete this, maybe I'll have to post on the drupal developer's needed page. Unless someone who reads this says, "oh I know why that's happening":(

Thanks for everyone's help today:)

yup that solved my problem...

read about it here:
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Embedding_Flash

Sooo... we're faced with the same tedious challenge when inserting Flash objects in nodes or pages as we are when inserting inline images by hand, more or less... As you say, it is a "it's a side-effect of using virtual URL resolution rather than static pages".

You'll see the failed request for /node/file.xml in your logs.

So the problem arises when clean URLs is enabled. We get paths as if we are accessing different pages in different directories. Of course, there is no such thing as a /node subfolder in your Drupal folder : the url query has been changed to deliver the user with a "clean" URL. So...Something like http://www.mySite.com/index.php?q=node/6 is changed to
http://www.mySite.com/node/6 in the browser's address bar.

I worked around it with mod_rewrite, as I didn't have access to the fla.

What rewrite rule did you use exactly ?
It would be very useful of you to share !! There's a a similar problem with images : when inserting them "by hand" we can't use relative paths to index.php when clean URL is turned on : the path the browser is using to access the image file then turns into http://www.mySite.com/node/6/files/myImage.jpg... and the browser can't find the file so the link is broken.

Either make the XML path more absolute, or place your xml files where they get looked for, or catch all requests for the xml file and rewrite them to the real path.

Placing the xml files where they get looked for probably won't work... unless creating directories just for that purpose, such as : node/6

How do you catch all requests for a specific sub-directory, say "files", and rewrite these requests in .htaccess ?

Please share!!!!

I'm also having the same problem and very interested in the mod_rewrite solution.

It's nice to know that Flash now supports a BASE concept - to make up for the confusion in between versions.
Good solution.

Cool!

Caroline
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