By ludo1960 on

Hi Folks,

Just starting developing with a drupal 6 project and almost immedietly hit a brick wall. I've researched the posts on similar issues but they have been of no help. So here it is....I wonder if I will get zero replies like so many similar posts I have read.

A simple flash movie with perhaps 3 or 4 elements, the main page loads no problem with a code snippet from Dreamweaver that works well in a non drupal environment, I have tried putting the sub pages in the root directory and the theme directory that I am using but to no avail. I'm guessing that this has something to with paths, can anybody offer any help on the subject?

Kind Regards,

Cliff...

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jscoble’s picture

jscoble commented

Different paradigms. The pages you see in Drupal are dynamically created and stored on the database. It sounds like you are trying to place the files you created in Dreamweaver into the Drupal directory and have them appear on the website as you would with a static website?

Is this correct? If so, that is neither the way that Drupal works nor is it intended to be that way. You may be able to find a workaround somewhere in the forums, but then what reason would you have for Drupal if you intend to just present pages that you created in Dreamweaver?

Quint’s picture

Quint commented

and set input format to HTML. Does that work?

bambam-1’s picture

bambam-1 commented

if it's a swf file put the swf file into your files directory, then place the snippet into the body of content field, and output as a FULL HTML

if it's a FLV file that you need to have a playback option... for now for drupal 6 upload it to any of the video site and in their embed field copy the either code into the text body field of your content editing page and out put as full html

another way to use the flv, you can install the flashvideo module, you don't need FFMpeg for flv, and follow the instructions and good luck.

techguy10’s picture

techguy10 commented

You mean that you have a flash file that you want displayed within a page or block on your drupal site, right? I think someone said something along these lines but I'll rephrase it from my perspective.. just because your site is done with Drupal doesn't mean that every element of the site has to be within Drupal.. you can create a folder in your site directory called something such as "flash" (which would basically be a non-drupal directory, the drupal system would not know this folder exists) and store the .swf files in there then put the code into your Drupal pages to display the flash file where desired. If you wanted to have an entire page of your site in flash, put it in the flash directory as well and just link into that page from a menu in your drupal site.

Just because you're using Drupal doesn't mean you have to use it for your entire site, I made a site once for e-commerce that was with done another CMS and interwoven with full flash pages that were not part of the CMS.. use the CMS where it provides you with an advantage but don't let it get in the way of making dynamic sites.

ludo1960’s picture

ludo1960 commented

Hello Techguy10,

Thanks for you reply, at least your reply was worth a shot...however I tried what you suggested and put the flash files in a directory (/flash/) that drupal doesn't know about, but still the same! My simple movie just won't play! Do you have any other suggestions or should I buy a large hammer?

Regards,

Ludo..