I operate a Drupal 4.7 hobby site (http://adverlicio.us) with a fairly vast archive of online Flash-based ads.

They're currently all posted using the old Flash filter module -- [flash:files/xxxx.swf]. I'd like to upgrade to Drupal 5.x but am concerned that support for this module has dried up. In fact, when I did a test site upgrade a few weeks ago, I couldn't get my old posts to display properly without manually tweaking each one to the new format. That's not practical, AFAIK, for my entire archive.

Is there a plan to provide backwards support for this filter? Rough timing for it to happen? Any way that I can help (I'm not very technical)? Or, is there a better solution that I'm overlooking?

Thanks!

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Stuart Greenfield commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Flash filter in the format above is different to flashnode.

Although flashnode has its own filter to allow flash content to be re-used, this is different to the flash filter which is used to directly access a file.

I *think* that the support for the flash filter is being built in to SWFTools. I have previously had a request about possibly writing a function for flashnode that would convert flash filter content to flash node content, although I don't have time to work on this at the moment.

I am going to set this issue as closed since flash filter support is not part of flash node.