Problems entering flash into JTK

dpodesta · #1 (**permalink**) 12-10-2007, 02:14 AM

I need help with entering flash swf's. I have read previous threads but have not been able to fix my problem.

I am using dreamweaver CS3 and joomla 1013a ecommerce.

Everything is perfect on my localhost but when installing the template in joomla for some reason the flash file appears as part of the "polls component", if I turn off polls it dissappears. Polls component is in the right block, I put the flash in a top middle table above the main block.

I have spent hours trying to fix this but as I am new to joomla, I don't understand how this could happen.

Can someone please help??

admin · #2 (**permalink**) 12-10-2007, 08:04 AM

Hi dpodesta,

I don't either.

1. way this can happen is that you a div tag around the code for the module and the flash file with a condition?

I need to see the file index.php to see the issue.

make sure that AC_RunActiveContent.js file which dreamweaver makes for flash files is in the images folder of your template.

it can be found in Scripts folder which should be in the root folder of your DW site.

upload the index.php I'll take a look.

Cheers,
Brian

dpodesta · #3 (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 12:57 AM

Thanks for looking at this so quickly. I really appreciate your help as I always add flash to my sites and need to make this work somehow. I will send the joomla index source code in another thread.

Below is the index php code
<?php
/**
* @Template Name:
* @Version: 1.12
* @Package: A Joomla 1.0.X template
* @Copyright: (C) 2007 by Brian Diaz Media 65
* @License: http://www.m65.net/
**/

defined( '_VALID_MOS' ) or die( 'Direct Access to this location is not allowed.' );
$iso = split( '=', _ISO ); echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'. $iso[1] .'"?' .'>';

?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<?php mosShowHead(); ?>
<?php if ($my->id) {initEditor();}?>
<link href="<?php echo "$GLOBALS[mosConfig_live_site]/templates/$GLOBALS[cur_template]/css/template_css.css";?>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php echo "$GLOBALS[mosConfig_live_site]/templates/$GLOBALS[cur_template]/favicon.ico"; ?>" />


<link href="css/template_css.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<script src="<?php echo "$GLOBALS[mosConfig_live_site]/templates/$GLOBALS[cur_template]/images/"; ?>
AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<table width="870" height="532" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<th height="160" colspan="3" valign="top" scope="col"><img src="<?php echo "$GLOBALS[mosConfig_live_site]/templates/$GLOBALS[cur_template]/images/"; ?>hypnosiscdslogo.jpg" alt="hynosiscds" width="906" height="167" /></th>
</tr>

<tr>
<td height="15" colspan="3" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000"><?php mosPathWay(); ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="179" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000"><?php if (mosCountModules('left')>0) mosLoadModules('left',0); ?></td>
<td width="600" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000"><table width="100%" height="286" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td scope="col"><script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0','width','600','heigh t','351','title','hypnoiscds_animation','src','<?p hp echo "$GLOBALS[mosConfig_live_site]/templates/$GLOBALS[cur_template]/images/"; ?>mymind_main','quality','high','pluginspage','htt p://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer','movie','<?php echo "$GLOBALS[mosConfig_live_site]/templates/$GLOBALS[cur_template]/images/"; ?>mymind_main' ); //end AC code
</script><noscript><object classid="clsid

27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="600" height="351" title="hypnoiscds_animation">
<param name="movie" value="<?php echo "$GLOBALS[mosConfig_live_site]/templates/$GLOBALS[cur_template]/images/"; ?>mymind_main.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="<?php echo "$GLOBALS[mosConfig_live_site]/templates/$GLOBALS[cur_template]/images/"; ?>mymind_main.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="351"></embed>
</object></noscript></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><?php mosMainBody(); ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table></td>
<td width="174" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000"> </td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td colspan="3" bgcolor="#000000"><?php if (mosCountModules('footer')>0) mosLoadModules('footer',-1); ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><?php include_once('includes/footer.php'); ?></td>
</tr>
</table>
<div align="center"></div>
</body>
</html>

dpodesta · #4 (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 12:59 AM

Joomla index source code. It is not showing at all here as I haven't got polls published.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>hypnosis cds - Home</title>
<meta name="description" content="Joomla - the dynamic portal engine and content management system" />
<meta name="keywords" content="Joomla, joomla" />
<meta name="Generator" content="Joomla! - Copyright (C) 2005 - 2007 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved." />
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.hypnosiscds.com.au/images/favicon.ico" />
<link href="http://www.hypnosiscds.com.au/templates/jwdigital/css/template_css.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.hypnosiscds.com.au/templates/jwdigital/favicon.ico" />


<link href="css/template_css.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<script src="http://www.hypnosiscds.com.au/templates/jwdigital/images/AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<table width="870" height="532" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<th height="160" colspan="3" valign="top" scope="col"><img src="http://www.hypnosiscds.com.au/templates/jwdigital/images/hypnosiscdslogo.jpg" alt="hynosiscds" width="906" height="167" /></th>
</tr>

<tr>
<td height="15" colspan="3" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000"><span class="pathway">Home </span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="179" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="moduletable">
<tr>
<th valign="top">
Main Menu </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>

<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr align="left"><td><a href="http://www.hypnosiscds.com.au/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1" class="mainlevel" id="active_menu">Home</a></td></tr>
<tr align="left"><td><a href="http://www.hypnosiscds.com.au/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=26" class="mainlevel" >Our Online-Shop</a></td></tr>
<tr align="left"><td><a href="http://www.hypnosiscds.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection& amp;id=0&Itemid=9" class="mainlevel" >Blog</a></td></tr>
<tr align="left"><td><a href="http://www.hypnosiscds.com.au/index.php?option=com_weblinks&Itemid=23" class="mainlevel" >Links</a></td></tr>
<tr align="left"><td><a href="http://www.hypnosiscds.com.au/index.php?option=com_contact&Itemid=3" class="mainlevel" >Contact Us</a></td></tr>
<tr align="left"><td><a href="http://www.hypnosiscds.com.au/index.php?option=com_search&Itemid=5" class="mainlevel" >Search</a></td></tr>
<tr align="left"><td><a href="http://www.hypnosiscds.com.au/index.php?option=com_newsfeeds&Itemid=7" class="mainlevel" >News Feeds</a></td></tr>
<tr align="left"><td><a href="http://www.hypnosiscds.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&amp ;sectionid=3&id=7&Itemid=25" class="mainlevel" >FAQs</a></td></tr>
</table> </td>
</tr>
</table>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="moduletable">
<tr>
<th valign="top">
Top-Ten Products </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
</table>


</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td width="600" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000"><table width="100%" height="286" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td scope="col"><script type="text/javascript"></script><noscript><object classid="clsid

27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="600" height="351" title="hypnoiscds_animation">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.hypnosiscds.com.au/templates/jwdigital/images/mymind_main.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="http://www.hypnosiscds.com.au/templates/jwdigital/images/mymind_main.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="351"></embed>
</object></noscript></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><table class="blog" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div> <table class="contentpaneopen">
<tr>
<td class="contentheading" width="100%">
Welcome to Joomla! </td>
</tr>
</table>

<table class="contentpaneopen">
<tr>
<td width="70%" align="left" valign="top" colspan="2">
<span class="small">
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</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="createdate">
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</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" colspan="2">
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</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="left" class="modifydate">
Last Updated ( Saturday, 12 June 2004 )
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" colspan="2">
<a href="http://www.hypnosiscds.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id= 1&Itemid=1" class="readon">
Read more...</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

<span class="article_seperator"> </span>

</div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td valign="top" width="50%"> <table class="contentpaneopen">
<tr>
<td class="contentheading" width="100%">
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</tr>
</table>

<table class="contentpaneopen">
<tr>
<td width="70%" align="left" valign="top" colspan="2">
<span class="small">
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</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="createdate">
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</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" colspan="2">
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your own dynamic site. Manage all your content from the best CMS admin
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</tr>
</table>

<span class="article_seperator"> </span>

</td><td valign="top" width="50%"> <table class="contentpaneopen">
<tr>
<td class="contentheading" width="100%">
Newsflash 2 </td>
</tr>
</table>

<table class="contentpaneopen">
<tr>
<td width="70%" align="left" valign="top" colspan="2">
<span class="small">
Written by Administrator </span>
  
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</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="createdate">
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</table>

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</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><div class="blog_more"> <div>
<strong>
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</div>
<ul>
<li>
<a class="blogsection" href="http://www.hypnosiscds.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id= 4&Itemid=1">
Newsflash 3</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div></td></tr></table></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table></td>
<td width="174" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000"> </td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td colspan="3" bgcolor="#000000"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div align="center">
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</td>
</tr>
</table>
<div align="center"></div>
</body>
</html>

admin · #5 (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 08:46 AM

Hi dpodesta,

you are going to laugh at yourself yes I have done this too.

Code:

           <param name="movie" value="http://www.hypnosiscds.com.au/templates/jwd  igital/images/mymind_main.swf" />

your template folder name has a space "jwd igital" should be "jwdigital"

thats why you can't see the flash file when this happens in url's
http://www.m65.net/some20%space.html it gets encoded by the browser.

There are a lot places where this happens in your template.
I would do search and replace in DW.

Cheers,
Brian

dpodesta · #6 (**permalink**) 12-12-2007, 06:11 AM

Sorry I don't know why the gaps and smiley faces are appearing in the code. I viewed source from the joomla home page and copied and pasted from notepad. This is the template code.

<?php
/**
* @Template Name:
* @Version: 1.12
* @Package: A Joomla 1.0.X template
* @Copyright: (C) 2007 by Brian Diaz Media 65
* @License: http://www.m65.net/
**/

defined( '_VALID_MOS' ) or die( 'Direct Access to this location is not allowed.' );
$iso = split( '=', _ISO ); echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'. $iso[1] .'"?' .'>';

?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<?php mosShowHead(); ?>
<?php if ($my->id) {initEditor();}?>
<link href="<?php echo "$GLOBALS[mosConfig_live_site]/templates/$GLOBALS[cur_template]/css/template_css.css";?>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php echo "$GLOBALS[mosConfig_live_site]/templates/$GLOBALS[cur_template]/favicon.ico"; ?>" />


<link href="css/template_css.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<script src="<?php echo "$GLOBALS[mosConfig_live_site]/templates/$GLOBALS[cur_template]/images/"; ?>
AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<table width="870" height="532" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<th height="160" colspan="3" valign="top" scope="col"><img src="<?php echo "$GLOBALS[mosConfig_live_site]/templates/$GLOBALS[cur_template]/images/"; ?>hypnosiscdslogo.jpg" alt="hynosiscds" width="906" height="167" /></th>
</tr>

<tr>
<td height="15" colspan="3" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000"><?php mosPathWay(); ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="179" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000"><?php if (mosCountModules('left')>0) mosLoadModules('left',0); ?></td>
<td width="600" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000"><table width="100%" height="286" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td scope="col"><script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0','width','600','heigh t','351','title','hypnosiscds_animation','src','<? php echo "$GLOBALS[mosConfig_live_site]/templates/$GLOBALS[cur_template]/images/"; ?>mymind_main','quality','high','pluginspage','htt p://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer','movie','<?php echo "$GLOBALS[mosConfig_live_site]/templates/$GLOBALS[cur_template]/images/"; ?>mymind_main' ); //end AC code
</script><noscript><object classid="clsid

27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="600" height="351" title="hypnosiscds_animation">
<param name="movie" value="<?php echo "$GLOBALS[mosConfig_live_site]/templates/$GLOBALS[cur_template]/images/"; ?>mymind_main.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="<?php echo "$GLOBALS[mosConfig_live_site]/templates/$GLOBALS[cur_template]/images/"; ?>mymind_main.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="351"></embed>
</object></noscript></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><?php mosMainBody(); ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table></td>
<td width="174" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000"> </td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td colspan="3" bgcolor="#000000"><?php if (mosCountModules('footer')>0) mosLoadModules('footer',-1); ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><?php include_once('includes/footer.php'); ?></td>
</tr>
</table>
<div align="center"></div>
</body>
</html>

admin · #7 (**permalink**) 12-12-2007, 09:14 AM

Hi dpodesta,

Hmm try deleting theses lines.

Code:

<!-- This so you can see the css styles in DW  you can delete file once editing Template is complete-->

<link href="css/template_css.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
    background-image: url();
}
-->
</style>

this link to a local CSS template_css.css is needed so you can see the style sheet in DW but for live sites you should delete it.

Code:

<link href="css/template_css.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">
<style type="text/css">

also in your CSS file also you may need to edit some of the background colors of the component sections and type to match your design.

Code:

.blogsection {
height:18px; <-- delete this line 
}

 .blog_more {
clear:both;
height:18px; <-- delete this line 

}

 .blog_heading {
height:18px; <-- delete this line 
}

Also the HTML CODE
top table frame width is smaller then your image size

Code:

<table width="870" height="532" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center">

Code:

<img src="http://www.hypnosiscds.com.au/templates/jwdigital/images/hypnosiscdslogo.jpg" alt="hynosiscds" height="167" width="906">

Last few things
1. the table that is holding your header. It has the image code in
a <TH> tag for table Header it should be a <TD> tag which is most likely why your getting this issue the flash is fine.

Code:

 <th colspan="3" scope="col" height="160" valign="top"><img src="http://www.hypnosiscds.com.au/templates/jwdigital/images/hypnosiscdslogo.jpg" alt="hynosiscds" height="167" width="906"></th>

should be

Code:

    <td colspan="3" scope="col" height="160" valign="top"><img src="http://www.hypnosiscds.com.au/templates/jwdigital/images/hypnosiscdslogo.jpg" alt="hynosiscds" height="167" width="906"></td>

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