By etgraphicd2 on

My flash swf file header shows only on the front page of my site...Where can I find information on replacing a jpeg header with a embedded flash header on all pages?

I inserted the code below in my page.tpl.php :

<div class="header">

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="600" height="297">
      <param name="movie" value="sites/all/themes/burnt_rubber_Theme/images/photoheader.swf" />
      <param name="quality" value="high" />

<embed src="sites/all/themes/burnt_rubber_Theme/images/photoheader.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="297"></embed>
    </object>
</div>

.....for some reason it only shows on front page, any help will be greatly appreciated.

Edited by WorldFallz - added <code> tags.

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zbricoleur’s picture

zbricoleur commented

Try changing this:
<param name="movie" value="sites/all/themes/burnt_rubber_Theme/images/photoheader.swf" />
to this:
<param name="movie" value="/sites/all/themes/burnt_rubber_Theme/images/photoheader.swf" />

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etgraphicd2 commented

I tried your suggestion; but no luck ... it did not work for me.
Thanks for trying to help

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danreb commented

Hi,

Just want to show you my site if this is what you want to achieve?
http://www.thecapulenos.com - the header or logo there is flash and it is shown in all pages. If this is what you wanted to do then I can share what modification I've done in my theme. I want to confirm first.

Ok i think you just need to declare an absolute url to you flash file, it is the shortcut method to your problem.

From this:


<div class="header">

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="600" height="297">
      <param name="movie" value="sites/all/themes/burnt_rubber_Theme/images/photoheader.swf" />
      <param name="quality" value="high" />

<embed src="sites/all/themes/burnt_rubber_Theme/images/photoheader.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="297"></embed>
    </object>
</div>

To this:

<div class="header">

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="600" height="297">
      <param name="movie" value="http://www.yourdomain.com/sites/all/themes/burnt_rubber_Theme/images/photoheader.swf" />
      <param name="quality" value="high" />

<embed src="http://www.yourdomain.com/sites/all/themes/burnt_rubber_Theme/images/photoheader.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="297"></embed>
    </object>
</div>

Please replace http://www.yourdomain.com with your real domain name.

If this wont work then I will share my second method of inserting flash which will need additional javascript library swfobject.js, a more complicated method but much better if you want your site to pass xhtml strict validation.

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etgraphicd2 commented

Hello,
I really appreciate your help. I tried your method and it worked out great for me.
Thanks again for sharing your knowledge.

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danreb commented

Glad it helps...

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etgraphicd2 commented

I have moved my drupal 6 site from my local mamp server to my remote server and now I can only access my front page. When I try to log in as admin or as one of the dummy accounts I made up I only get access denied.
How can I get into my admin section to try to fix file path problem?
Is there a file I can access without logging in to fix this?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

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lovén commented

Please do explain,
I'm interested in knowing your method to insert flash object in header with swfobject.js.

That would be what I'm searching for.

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BurrowsDontMove commented

Thank you!

danreb’s picture

danreb commented

Check this thread - http://drupal.org/node/547714#comment-2173020

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cazam commented

soooooooooo much!
Thanks for this post, saved me from weeks of stress and headache of not knowing wtf to do.

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ss54 commented

@etgraphicd2
you should have replaced your path with a complete url, and that is it like http://yoursite.com/....
sorry for being late in my reply. @etgraphicd2

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vanessawood commented

etgraphicd2 you're a star :)