[SWFObject] Audio Flash Player
Patricia Davidson
pddesigns at gmail.com
Sun Nov 19 21:05:05 PST 2006
Ok, I understand. Thanks so much!
Pat :)
On 11/19/06, Aran Rhee <aran.rhee at qdc.net.au> wrote:
> Patrcia.
>
> It's not that it is looking for a file and can't find it, but that it is
> writing multiple things into 1 place. In your youth group page there are
> supposed to be 3 separate players, but in IE it is writing the flash content
> for all 3 into the 1 place (so you only end up with one working player, as
> each overwrites the last)
>
> I don't know anything about EE, but I am assuming you can have some internal
> variables for the page on the server side. It would need to be something
> like (I am using pseudo-code since I don't know the proper syntax)
>
> // initialised at the beginning of the page render by PHP/EE etc.
> // counter created for handling multiple instances of the audio player
> {counter=1}
>
>
> // code to run when rendering an audioplayer tag
> // will create a unique DIV id and player ID on each creation
>
> {if audioplayer}
> // increment the counter
> {counter = counter +1}
>
> // create a unique DIV id
> <div id="flashcontent"+{counter}>
> This text is replaced by the Flash Audio Player.
> </div>
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> // give unique id to flash file
> var so = new
> SWFObject("http://goldbeachyouthgroup.com/player/player.swf",
> "audioplayer"+ {counter}, "290", "24", "7");
> so.addVariable("soundFile",
>
> "http://goldbeachyouthgroup.com/player/player.swf?file={audioplayer}");
> so.addVariable("bg", "0xDDA246");
> so.addVariable("slider", "0xAF0000");
> so.addVariable("track", "0xFFFFFF");
> so.addVariable("border", "0xFFFFFF");
> so.addVariable("loader", "0x790022");
> so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
> so.addParam("menu", "false");
> // write the flash content to the unique DIV
> so.write("flashcontent"+{counter});
> </script>
> {/if}
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Aran
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com
> > [mailto:swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com] On Behalf Of
> > Patricia Davidson
> > Sent: Monday, 20 November 2006 12:16 PM
> > To: swfobject at lists.deconcept.com
> > Subject: Re: [SWFObject] Audio Flash Player
> >
> > I understand what you are saying and by looking at the output
> > file, I can see where it is looking for the particular file
> > and can't find it, except the first one.
> >
> > Here is an example in another blog (EE by pMachine ) where
> > I've added a Flash video player and used swfOject for it.
> >
> > Since we are dealing with php programming, this site is set
> > up to display the player whenever a movie is detected. So I
> > used one div, but the programming says to look for the file -
> > hope that makes sense.
> > http://www.mikenpat.com/index.php/site/fire_on_the_chetco/
> >
> > here is the output code if you view source:
> > <div id="flashcontent">
> > This text is replaced by the Flash movie.
> > </div>
> >
> > <script type="text/javascript">
> > var so = new
> > SWFObject("http://www.mikenpat.com/player/flvplayer.swf?file=h
> ttp://mikenpat.com/movies/bike_ride_video.flv&autoStart=true> ",
> > "mymovie", "320", "240", "7", "#f9f8f2");
> > so.write("flashcontent");
> > so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
> > </script>
> >
> > Now what the script looks like in the page template through EE:
> >
> > {if flvideo}
> > <div id="flashcontent">
> > This text is replaced by the Flash movie.
> > </div>
> >
> > <script type="text/javascript">
> > var so = new
> > SWFObject("http://www.mikenpat.com/player/flvplayer.swf?file={
> flvideo}&autoStart=true",
> > "mymovie", "320", "240", "7", "#f9f8f2");
> > so.write("flashcontent");
> > so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
> > </script>
> > {/if}
> >
> > So using this as an example, I'm assuming that I can do
> > something to tell the programming to look for the particular
> > file that is within each blog entry.
> >
> > Back to Gold Beach youth group site. I thought I could do
> > something like this:
> > {if audioplayer != ""}
> > <div id="flashcontent">
> > This text is replaced by the Flash Audio Player.
> > </div>
> >
> > <script type="text/javascript">
> > var so = new
> > SWFObject("http://goldbeachyouthgroup.com/player/player.swf",
> > "audioplayer2", "290", "24", "7");
> > so.addVariable("soundFile",
> > "http://goldbeachyouthgroup.com/player/player.swf?file={audiop
> layer}");
> > so.addVariable("bg", "0xDDA246");
> > so.addVariable("slider", "0xAF0000");
> > so.addVariable("track", "0xFFFFFF");
> > so.addVariable("border", "0xFFFFFF");
> > so.addVariable("loader", "0x790022");
> > so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
> > so.addParam("menu", "false");
> > so.write("flashcontent");
> > </script>
> > {/if}
> >
> >
> > Since the tempate / page template only has this item once but
> > will display whenever and audio is detected within an entry.
> > Does that make better sense where I"m at with this? I've
> > tried posting to EE forum, but maybe no one is using swfOject
> > and doesn't understand what I'm trying to do.
> >
> > Thanks for the help.
> >
> > Pat :)
> >
> > On 11/19/06, Aran Rhee <aran.rhee at qdc.net.au> wrote:
> > > Patricia.
> > >
> > > Remember from my last email when I said you needed to have
> > individual
> > > names for your DIV's for each audio player to write into?
> > This is an
> > > error cause by all your DIV's are called "flashcontent". Each
> > > definition of swfObejct is trying to write to that DIV (and
> > > overwriting the content with the last file to render to screen)
> > >
> > > Can you get the expression engine to tack on a counter
> > > "flashcontent1", "flashcontent2" etc to each DIV? Out of good
> > > practice, you should really uniquely ID each flash file too
> > "audioplayer1", "audioplayer2" etc.
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Aran
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com
> > > > [mailto:swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com] On Behalf
> > Of Patricia
> > > > Davidson
> > > > Sent: Monday, 20 November 2006 11:48 AM
> > > > To: swfobject at lists.deconcept.com
> > > > Subject: Re: [SWFObject] Audio Flash Player
> > > >
> > > > I am posting again, even though Aran helped me with this
> > website. I
> > > > am having an issue though with IE 6. My flash player (swfOject
> > > > wrapped around it) is set up within the pMachine
> > Expression Engine
> > > > programming. What's happening is that the flash audio
> > player will
> > > > not display for all my clients audio teachings in IE6. The first
> > > > audio displays, not not the next couple of ones. In
> > Firefox it is
> > > > displaying correctly.
> > > >
> > > > here's my site again:
> > > > http://goldbeachyouthgroup.com/index.php/site/teachings
> > > >
> > > > here is the code with swfOject:
> > > >
> > > > {if audioplayer != ""}
> > > > <div id="flashcontent">
> > > > This text is replaced by the Flash Audio Player.
> > > > </div>
> > > >
> > > > <script type="text/javascript">
> > > > var so = new
> > > > SWFObject("http://goldbeachyouthgroup.com/player/player.swf",
> > > > "audioplayer2", "290", "24", "7");
> > > > so.addVariable("soundFile",
> > > > "http://goldbeachyouthgroup.com/player/{audioplayer}");
> > > > so.addVariable("bg", "0xDDA246");
> > > > so.addVariable("slider", "0xAF0000");
> > > > so.addVariable("track", "0xFFFFFF");
> > > > so.addVariable("border", "0xFFFFFF");
> > > > so.addVariable("loader", "0x790022");
> > > > so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
> > > > so.addParam("menu", "false");
> > > > so.write("flashcontent");
> > > > </script>
> > > > {/if}
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, Pat :)
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