Flash Banner in WP 1.5

  • I read the article on how to place a Header in Flash onto your website, but that didn’t work. It could be that I have a newer version of WP. Now my question how do I place a Header in Flash in WP 1.5.

    I tried replacing: header.php

    <div id=”header”>
    <div id=”headerimg”>
    <h1>“><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></h1>
    <div class=”description”><?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?></div>
    </div>
    </div>
    <hr />

    With:

    <div id=”header”>
    <object classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ codebase=”https://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0&#8243; width=”760″ height=”200″>
    <param name=”movie” value=”images/header.swf” />
    <param name=”quality” value=”high” />
    <embed src=”images/header.swf” quality=”high” pluginspage=”https://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer&#8221; type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”760″ height=”200″></embed>
    </object>
    </div>
    <hr />

    But all i see is a white field, the Flash is there, but won’t load th *.swf. What do I do wrong or forgot?

    Le Marquis

    [email protected]

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  • I don’t know anything about this, but I did turn up this:

    https://www.kimili.com/journal/38/kimili-flash-embed—wordpress-edition

    Hope it helps.

    Thread Starter LeMarquis

    (@lemarquis)

    No that’s not it! This is for posting flash based files on your blog. I already got it…

    But thanks for your time…

    Sorry.

    Thread Starter LeMarquis

    (@lemarquis)

    Anyone else?

    I tried putting the .swf code between the <h1></h1> , but it didn’t work.

    What did work was placing the .swf code after the body

    <body>
    <div id= "page">
    <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="https://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="750" height="200">
    <param name="movie" value="http:www.shortforstephen.com/blog/wp-content/path/to/.swf">
    <param name=quality value=high>
    <embed src="https://www.shortforstephen.com/blog/wp-content/path/to/.swf" quality=high pluginspage="https://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="750" height="200"></embed>
    </object>

    I haven’t checked it with all browsers please give me some feedback.

    I’ve gotten this to work with the Kubrick theme in WP 1.5+.

    First I went into header.php and replaced the whole “headerimg” div section at the bottom with the object/embed block required for the movie. This made a white box appear, but at least it was in the right place. The problem was that I was not specifying the correct path to the Flash movie.

    I had put the movie in the theme’s images directory. Referencing it with a full "https://blah/blah/images/movie.swf" string didn’t work, and neither did just "movie.swf" or "images/movie.swf". Looking up further in the file, I noticed that the PHP code for the other images in that directory looked like this: <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); >/images/movie.swf".

    I tried this and it worked great. A little CSS to clean up the layout and it worked fine. Hope this helps.

    Matt

    It took a lot of head scratching but in the end a joint USA _Italy skype session over two days came up with a working answer for a flash header in WP 1.5. … have a look at a working flash webcam header here;

    https://www.barganews.com/daily/

    ciao
    db

    I’ve tried using the above methods for embedding a swf into the header.php file, but I still just get a blank box and my movie doesn’t seem to be loading.

    I’m fairly good with PHP and know my Flash, and I’m totally confused as to why it isn’t working.

    If someone who has successfully implemented this could post a link to the source, I’d greatly appreciate it.

    I have tried everything above to generate a wordpress blog with a flash header, i really didn’t think it would end up being this hard, but it needs to be done.

    if anyone can give me a hand, and break it down in very simple steps, simply because i must be missign something for it not to work following the above instructions.

    i would appreciate any help. btw, i’m running 2.0.2, could that be the problem?

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