This is killing me. Need help from a wordpress guru

  • eddyj

    (@eddyj)


    19 years ago

    ok ive been playing around with flashplayers and im testing right now on a blog i have and had some success but have run into a issue.. ok site is https://www.consumerfinanceadvisor.com

    If you go there now you will see 1 post and a flashplayer it displays ok and the file plays.

    BUT

    click on the TITLE of the post and you will see that the flash player has VANISHED

    So i did some testing and what i discoverd was this…
    if my permalinks are set to default

    https://www.consumerfinanceadvisor.com/?p=123

    then you can SEE the flashplayer on the main page and when you click the title link to the post

    but if I change the permalinks to anything else say like

    https://www.consumerfinanceadvisor.com/2006/03/16/sample-post/

    then I run into this issue which is.. where it can be seen on the main page but not on the POST itself when the title is clicked.. this is obviously a path problem right now my FLASHPLAYER.SWF ( which displays what you see ) is in the main root directory

    https://www.consumerfinanceadvisor.com/

    Any ideas how I get my player to show up when the permalinks have been changed???

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  • Thread Starter eddyj

    (@eddyj)

    well it seems now i have got it to show up when you click the post but the color is messed up and the mp3 doesnt play.. damn this..

    Thread Starter eddyj

    (@eddyj)

    Does anyone have any ideas?????

    Thread Starter eddyj

    (@eddyj)

    I need Help!!!!

    geoffe

    (@geoffe)

    Solved it: your code that reads
    <PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="player0.swf?loadFrom=mp0.xml">
    is causing problems. You should have the domain address in there, because permalinks is confusing the flash player as to the location of the file using a relative link to your flash file.

    Thus https://www.consumerfinanceadvisor.com/?p=8 works fine but https://www.consumerfinanceadvisor.com/2006/03/16/test/ does not.

    Change the problem code to <PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="https://www.consumerfinanceadvisor.com/player0.swf?loadFrom=mp0.xml">

    Thread Starter eddyj

    (@eddyj)

    geoffe i have already tried that.. the result is it displays on the main blog ok but when you go to the post itself yes the player is viewed but then it ends up not playing and colors are messed

    https://www.consumerfinanceadvisor.com/2006/03/16/test/

    go look then go to main site the main plays but the post dont check the code again and you will see ive done what you said

    geoffe

    (@geoffe)

    I imagine what is happening there is that the flash player is loading but the xml data is not, which is strange (i.e. I don’t understand the explanation for it)

    Whoever made the flash file probably set a test that it would be grayed out if it could not load the xml file.

    The problem seems obviously to be a relative link problem since it only messes up on your rewritten URLs of permalinks.

    The URL https://www.consumerfinanceadvisor.com/player0.swf?loadFrom=mp0.xml shouldn’t be a problem, but what if you used https://www.consumerfinanceadvisor.com/player0.swf?loadFrom=https://www.consumerfinanceadvisor.com/mp0.xml
    yet the variable for loadFrom in the URI should be relative to https://www.consumerfinanceadvisor.com/player0.swf, and not the location where the call is made, but maybe we’ll both learn something new today.

    marke1

    (@marke1)

    Couple of issues in your HTML, not sure if this is the problem you mention but it is not correct nevertheless:

    <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#ffffff>

    bgcolor should be “bgcolor” and same for #ffffff

    object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="200" HEIGHT="60"codebase="https://active.macromedia.com/flash7/cabs/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0">
    <PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="https://www.consumerfinanceadvisor.com/player0.swf?loadFrom=mp0.xml">

    Need a space between HEIGHT and codebase

    geoffe

    (@geoffe)

    I think using an absolute path to the xml file should solve it.

    There must be something about how the Flash player file is checking for the file relative to its location in the html file it’s called from — which would be /2006/03/16/test/

    If using the full path to the xml file doesn’t solve it, I’d say you need to use a different flash music player or abandon permalinks.

    Thread Starter eddyj

    (@eddyj)

    yeah ive given up something is wrong.. im going to have to use audioblog.com and pay them $10.. i cant believe this lol

    ive tried this one https://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/ and it works but doesnt look as nice.

    geoffe

    (@geoffe)

    have you tried using this yet:

    https://www.consumerfinanceadvisor.com/player0.swf?loadFrom=https://www.consumerfinanceadvisor.com/mp0.xml

    Although I think that pixel out player looks good, and better than this flash one.

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