Flash slideshow won't work

by **Wogan_Mike** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:17 pm

I'm building a webpage with dreamweaver 8 pro. I used the insert flash image viewer to add a flash slide show I created. Everything works fine in dreamweaver but when I upload it to my server and then view it in IE7 it's not there, like I never even added it at all. (And yes I have flash player)

You should know the the page I'm putting the .swf on is a .php. Could that anything to do with it?

Any help with rectifying this problem is greatly appreciated.

Mike W.

by **narian** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:25 pm

are you forgetting to save the file when you try and view?

im a noob with html and i don't use dream weaver (my bro dose though) so i wouldn't know if it matters.

by **Wogan_Mike** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:36 pm

No I remebered to save before uploading and viewing the page.

by **narian** on Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:10 am

maby your browser doesn't support flash?

by **Wogan_Mike** on Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:53 am

No it does because I use it all the time. I've even made websites with flash but I've just never implemented flash components into a html/php site through dreamweaver.

by **generalchaos316** on Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:54 pm

Have you tried dumping your .swf to a vanilla HTML page just to make sure your browser/hosting company will play nice with it? Sounds remedial, I know, but worth a shot.

by **Wogan_Mike** on Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:48 pm

I not familiar with that. Could you please elaborate?

Thanks,
Mike W.

by **generalchaos316** on Sun Mar 18, 2007 9:27 pm

Sorry, I mean make the simplest HTML page that you can...just to see if the animation will load in it. Something like:

Code: Select all: <html> <head> <title>Test</title> </head> <body> <whatever command(s) will put your animation on the page> </body> </html>

I call it a 'vanilla page' because it is as plain a page as you can get...much like getting a vanilla ice cream cone is about the plainest order you can make at an ice cream shop :-P

by **generalchaos316** on Sun Mar 18, 2007 9:35 pm

...or, if you are doing this without any hand coding then simply open a new page (.HTML first...then move on to a .PHP page if that one works), use your "insert Flash image viewer" button, save and test.

If each of these work fine for you, another thing you could try is commenting out (ex.  ) small chunks of your site one by one. This can sometimes help to locate any inconsistencies/conflicts in code that might otherwise be hard to find. These tricks work great in C++ and would think they would have some use in HTML too.

by **Wogan_Mike** on Sun Mar 18, 2007 9:53 pm

I appreciate your input. I tried your "vanilla" method and it still works fine. It just doesn't work once uploaded to the server. Does the server have to have something special to be able to process SWFs?

Thanks again,
Mike W.

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