Hi, after some fussing and fixing, I got an Image Rotator to work for me, very nice.
I did that on a PHP ready page node. But, I thought it might be better if I put this
in at the template, I have a special front page template, designed for a flash
area.

When I move the code to the template the rotator stops working; I get the
error 'Sorry, flash is not available.' But that's cool sort of, just seems like the
paths would be wrong / different at the template level?

Anyway, code is just some sample stuff :

  // You can grab a playlist using a simple file
  // array, by calling the SWF Tools helper function.
  $playlist = swftools_prepare_playlist_data(
    array('image1.jpg','image2.jpg','image3.jpg'));

  // Then pass this to swf_list.
  print swf_list($playlist, "613x172",
  array('frameColor' => '#FF0000','bgcolor' => '#123456',));

Can SWFTool work in a template, what might I need to change, look at?

Thanks for ideas, John

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goose2000’s picture

goose2000 commented

Ok, found one workaround. This problem indicates there is something not happy with the 'Embedding settings' in the admin area. I tried the other options, and found that 'Embed Flash Directly, don't use JavaScript replacement' worked perfect. Checked out in FF and IE

Maybe a better way? In anycase, maybe help someone.

John A

spasmody’s picture

spasmody commented

Yes goose2000, maybe help me for instance. I prefer to put the code directly in the template to. And actually, this seems to be better (no error message). But I still have no result on my screen. I suspect an error in the file locations. What directory did you put your images in?
Thanx
Spasmody

goose2000’s picture

goose2000 commented

Hi,

I don't have anything set in the embed - default files directory (blank in the SWFTool admin area) So,
I found if I just dumped them into the Drupal /files/ directory, they got picked up there. I haven't
tried to changes this yet but will need to.

John

kris_mcl’s picture

kris_mcl commented

Hi, sorry to bring back an old thread. I'm looking to do the same thing (embed a SWF in my page.tpl.php file using SWFObject2), and I get the 'Sorry, Flash is not available.' message, too.
The Flash file shows up ok when I use the direct embed method in the SWFTools admin.
Has anyone gotten this to work?

Thanks in advance!

Kris

ron williams’s picture

ron williams commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

5.x-1.x is no longer supported, so I have marked as closed.