Am running drupal 6.4 and the update status module advised me that the latest version of Flashnode was available and that I should update asap. So downloaded the tarball, read through the readme and update files. All looked good so installed and ran update.php as per normal.

There was no mention in the documentation that SWF tools 6 is required. Hence on my admin pages and home page I encountered the white screen of death. So turned on error reporting in php.ini and the problem was a call to undefined swf() function in flash.module file, line 1049 I think.

As soon as I uploaded the SWF 6 module, it disappeared. However this needs to be somewhere loud and clear in the supporting documentation. If I happened to have missed it, apologies in advance, otherwise fix needed asap on this one.

Renaee.

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Stuart Greenfield commented

I will check this out - flash node is supposed to work WITHOUT SWF Tools, and only try to call swf() if SWF Tools is available.

Sorry for any inconvenience!

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Stuart Greenfield commented
Component: Documentation » Code
Assigned: Unassigned » Stuart Greenfield
Category: task » bug
Status: Active » Fixed

I just put 6.x-2.1 for release which fixes this. I changed the way flash node looks for SWF Tools, and I'm sure it WAS working before, so I'm not sure why it broke. I put it back to the old way of detecting SWF Tools and it seems ok now.

Sorry for the hiccup!

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Renzy commented

thanks for quick fix, now that i have SFW tools installed and working with flashnode will probably give it a try anyway! Looks like a powerful module.
Renaee.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.