chrisdegrote

Topic: How to place a flash banner

Dear all,

I have a question about placing a flash banner on my site. I would like to know what you've got to edit in PHP for that effect?
I would like to have the banner just above the footer links and below the job openings. The banner would be 700 px wide and quite thin 40px.
Thanx

links

Re: How to place a flash banner

Hi,

You need to edit in _templates/footer.tpl. Place the embed code:

Code:

  <object height="40" width="700" align="left" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000">
    <param value="path_to_flash/flash.swf" name="movie"/>
    <param value="high" name="quality"/>
    <embed height="40" width="700" align="left" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" quality="high" src="path_to_flash/flash.swf"/>
    </object>

just before the line:

Code:

</div><!-- #container -->

Good luck!

chrisdegrote

Re: How to place a flash banner

Thanx for the reply!

Unfortuanelly I can't get it to work.

This is partially my code from the footer.tpl I've put the .swf (name is movie.swf)file in the root folder. I also tried it to place it in root/flash/. Both doesn't work.
What am I doing wrong?

   
 

Code:
<object height="80" width="700" align="left" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000">
    <param value="path_to_flash/movie.swf" name="movie"/>
    <param value="high" name="quality"/>
    <embed height="80" width="700" align="left" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" quality="high" src="path_to_flash/movie.swf"/>
    </object>
    </div><!-- #container -->
    <div class="footer">
        <div id="footer-contents">
            <div id="footer-col1">
                {$translations.footer.column_use}:<br />

links

Re: How to place a flash banner

Hi,

Have you tried giving the full path? Like:

Code:

 <param value="{$BASE_URL}movie.swf" name="movie"/>

and

Code:

 <embed height="80" width="700" align="left" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" quality="high" src="{$BASE_URL}movie.swf"/>

with the movie being in the root folder?

chrisdegrote

Re: How to place a flash banner

Great Tip!!

It works now thank you for the tip!!!!!!

chrisdegrote

Re: How to place a flash banner

Hey all an update on this post!

To let the flash movies show in internet explorer use this line of code. If you want more info on this subject check this out.

http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/downloads/list

&

http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

Code:
<object id="myId" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="300" height="250">
                <param name="movie" value="test.swf" />
                <!--[if !IE]>-->
                <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="test.swf" width="300" height="250">
                <!--<![endif]-->
                <div>
                    <h1>Alternative content</h1>
                    <p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" /></a></p>
                </div>
                <!--[if !IE]>-->
                </object>
                <!--<![endif]-->
            </object>

Last edited by chrisdegrote (2009-06-18 22:59:55)

chrisdegrote

Re: How to place a flash banner

But I see now that the flash banners down on my site are only shown on the homepage and not on the other pages. What could be the cause of that?

links

Re: How to place a flash banner

Hi,

You can only see the first flash movie from the bottom. You forgot to put {$BASE_URL} in front of reclamebaanict.swf for the rest wink Both in the param and the object tag.

chrisdegrote

Re: How to place a flash banner

Thanx again for your fast and adequate respons!!big_smile