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    Posted: 06 January 2005 at 3:38am
Hey Guys
I am trying to run a sponsor banner on my front page. The thing is he has given me an swf file. I have inlcuded it in my header file but it won't run. I have also seen some talk of swf files being security risks.
Is this true? What would be my best solution?
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Points: 9844 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 January 2005 at 4:42am
Have you included correctly.

Flash files will not run like a normal image file. In many browsers they have to be included as an object.
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Points: 58 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 January 2005 at 8:52am
How do I do that?
 
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to add a SWF to a page you need the following 



<object  classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codeba se="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/ swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0"
width="32"  height="32">

  <param name="movie" value="path to SWF">

  <param name="quality" value="high">

  <embed src="path to SWF"  quality="high"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/ge tflashplayer"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"  width="32"
height="32"></embed>

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Points: 58 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 January 2005 at 2:51am
I have done all that but still no joy. The banner runs in a normal html page but not the header.asp.
Any ideas?
 
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Points: 3627 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 January 2005 at 2:17pm
it should work, what happens (error) do you get when trying it in the header.asp page?
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You seem to have it sorted now.
I'm not a big fan of flash banners but I thought it was cool the way the top part of the flash banner loaded before the rest of the forum after I hit the forum link on your home page.

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Ok I sorted it and it was just wrong path in the header.asp file. (ahem, embarassed grin)
The path must be relative to the default.asp file not the header.asp file in the includes directory
 
and yeah the delay is a bonus for the sponsor. Is there a way to delay the loading so that can be controlled? We could hook a few more advertisers with a 'You get shown berfore everything else' angle. Interesting.Clap
Sorry for all the fuss and thanks for all the help
 
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