Make a swf file available in your template.
Last modified: December 5, 2008 - 20:40
So there is a flash file used in the sites template, ie. on every page. This is a very simple example to illustrate method. You can see that width, height are based on the flash file, usually we force this to be exact for a template since it will often line up with non-flash elements. Also, a background color is set.
In your _phptemplate_variables section of your template.php, add this in side the case 'page': switch.
<?php
function _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars) {
switch($hook) {
case 'page' :
$vars['swf_logo'] = swf(
"http://example.com/files/banner.swf",
array('width' => '420', 'height' => '140', 'bgcolor' => '#336699'), FALSE,
array('html_alt' => '<h1>Name of site if flash is disabled.</h1>')
);
break;
}
return $vars;
}
?>Then in the page.tpl.php:
<?php
print $swf_logo
?>at the appropriate spot.
template for D6
The correct code is
<?phpfunction themeName_preprocess(&$vars, $hook) {
switch($hook) {
case 'page' :
$vars['swf_logo'] = "http://example.com/files/banner.swf",
array(
'params' => array(
'height' => '140',
'width' => '420',
'bgcolor' => '#FFFFFF'
)
)
);
break;
}
}
?>
Problem
That still doesn't seem to work for me... although there was a syntax error. The revised correct code should read like this:
<?phpfunction ubiquity_preprocess(&$vars, $hook) {
switch($hook) {
case 'page' :
$vars['swf_logo'] = "http://www.yoursite.com/files/images/banner.swf";
array(
'params' => array(
'height' => '140',
'width' => '420',
'bgcolor' => '#FFFFFF'
)
)
;
break;
}
}
?>
without the php opening and closing tags (since this is supposed to go in template.php).
When I insert
<?phpprint $swf_logo
?>
<div id="header-inner">tags of the page.tpl file, my banner doesn't show up. What I doing wrong? Oh yeah, I'm also using the Ubiquity theme.I can see that I has left
I can see that I has left out the most important code of them all, the call to the swf() function that will get it all to work.
Your will her get the right code to fix your problem :)
<?phpfunction themeName_preprocess(&$vars, $hook) {
switch($hook) {
case 'page' :
$vars['swf_logo'] = swf("http://www.yoursite.com/files/images/banner.swf",
array(
'params' => array(
'height' => '140',
'width' => '420',
'bgcolor' => '#FFFFFF'
)
)
);
break;
}
}
?>
and the in yout page.tpl.php file print the $swf_logo variable
<?phpprint $swf_logo;
?>
I apologies for the error
with views node feed
This an example about how to use swftools with views_node_feed module.
Inside template.php
function _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars) {
$vars['swf_logo'] = swf(
"http://myweb.com/sites/all/themes/mytheme/imagerotator.swf",
array('width' => '970', 'height' => '220', 'bgcolor' => '#336699'), array('file' => 'http://myweb.com/header/node_feed', 'showicons' => 'false', 'shownavigation' => 'false'),
array('html_alt' => '<h1>Name of site if flash is disabled.</h1>')
);
return $vars;
}
A example of code for XML that is referenced toward imagerotator.swf
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/">
<trackList>
<track>
<title>peru trekking hiking climbing</title>
<creator>Author 1</creator>
<location>http://myweb.com/files/peru_hiking_trekking _tours.jpg</location>
<info>Perú</info>
</track>
<track>
<title>peru_trekking_in_peru</title>
<creator>Author 2</creator>
<location>http://myweb.com/files/Hiking in Peru.jpg</location>
<info>Perú</info>
</track>
</trackList>
</playlist>