Flash not appear in Firefox [Archive]

WebMaker12

11-19-2007, 03:23 AM

Well,

I had a company create for me my flash banner and they did a pretty good job, but they did not install it for me ( I should say they attempted too, but they stopped when there was a minor obstacle in the way)

Anyhow,

The banner seems to work fine in Internet Explorer fine. Just Mozilla Firefox it does not work.

Here is the website: http://biblical-education.com/

Try it using both internet explorer and Firefox and you willl see what I mean.

What should be done about this? Is there like an additional line of code that needs to be added or altered? You guys want me to copy and paste to you the code I have (that the company put for me) so it works for internet explorer not firefox?

Thanks,

Have a Good Day :)

BLiZZaRD

11-19-2007, 03:56 AM

Well, that link I am getting an access denied page.. and there isn't any Flash on it.. unless the Access Denied page is the one you are talking about? Never mind I see it :p

<embed src="http://biblical-education.com/images/header.swf" quality="high" scale="exactfit" wmode="opaque" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="1102" height="160" name="header" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />

Replace the <embed> part of your code with the one above. It appears that the code for FF (embed) is still linking to another site, calling header2.swf, which either is hotlinked blocked or doesn't exist there anymore.

link the embed to your local movie and it shold be fine.

Also, not that your code is out dated, with Active X disputes and other browser issues Flash won't always work or display correctly in browsers. You can search this forum for "EOLAS" and find my posts about how to do it correctly. Or wait a week or so as I will be doing a tutorial on it. :D

WebMaker12

11-19-2007, 09:56 PM

Sweet Man.

Thanks A lot.

Just a quick question, that line of code where would I find it? :D Sorry

BLiZZaRD

11-20-2007, 12:18 AM

Open your index.html in notepad. it's near the top.

WebMaker12

11-21-2007, 12:22 AM

Sorry I forgot to mention that the site is PHP not html.

Is it still index.html?

I use drupal for PHP ( I don't know if you are familiar with it or not)

BLiZZaRD

11-21-2007, 06:22 AM

Usually it is .html it can be anything though, .php, .htm Just look for your index page, the one where you put the code on in the first place.

WebMaker12

11-21-2007, 06:16 PM

Usually it is .html it can be anything though, .php, .htm Just look for your index page, the one where you put the code on in the first place.

When I go to into my FTP and go under the file for themes I see this (and many others)

page.tgl.php ( I think this is the file I need)

There is a part in the file that says:

<div id="header" style='height:170px;text-align:center;background-color:white;background-image:URL(images/background.jpg);'>
<div id="flash">
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="1102" height="160" id="header2" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="images/header2.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="scale" value="exactfit" /><param name="wmode" value="opaque" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /><embed src="http://www.designsbyvishal.com/banner/header2.swf" quality="high" scale="exactfit" wmode="opaque" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="1102" height="160" name="header2" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</div>

Should I change something in there?

BLiZZaRD

11-21-2007, 06:25 PM

Yup... see where it says <embed src=

Change that with what I posted above.

WebMaker12

11-21-2007, 06:42 PM

Did that but it still doesn't work :(

Did I do something wrong with the code?

BLiZZaRD

11-21-2007, 06:50 PM

You didn't do the whole thing....

Take this WHOLE part:

<embed src="http://www.designsbyvishal.com/banner/header2.swf" quality="high" scale="exactfit" wmode="opaque" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="1102" height="160" name="header2" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />

and replace it with this WHOLE line:

<embed src="http://biblical-education.com/images/header.swf" quality="high" scale="exactfit" wmode="opaque" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="1102" height="160" name="header" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />

WebMaker12

11-21-2007, 07:05 PM

Thank You so much for your help.

Got it working

BLiZZaRD

11-21-2007, 08:33 PM

YAY!! Glad it is working!

WebMaker12

11-22-2007, 01:25 AM

Could you please check this website:

www.biblicalmission.com

The banner works fine for the homepage, but other links within the website, the banner will not appear on those.

BLiZZaRD

11-22-2007, 08:18 PM

because your code isn't set up to go on all pages. It is easy to fix though.. just find:

images/header2.swf

It appears twice, in the code, once after <value= and once after <embed

change that to the full URL of the move http://yoursite.com/themove.swf

for every page you have it on.

WebMaker12

11-26-2007, 03:42 AM

Sorry for the late reply (haven't had internet access in a while)

This is what I see:

<div id="header" style='height:170px;text-align:center;background-color:white;background-image:URL(images/background.jpg);'>
<div id="flash">
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="1102" height="160" id="header2" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="images/header2.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="scale" value="exactfit" /><param name="wmode" value="opaque" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /><embed src="http://www.designsbyvishal.com/banner/header2.swf" quality="high" scale="exactfit" wmode="opaque" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="1102" height="160" name="header2" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</div>

I'm confused on what I should change, sorry --- What should be the code that is changed?

BLiZZaRD

11-26-2007, 04:46 AM

Sorry for the late reply (haven't had internet access in a while)

This is what I see:

<div id="header" style='height:170px;text-align:center;background-color:white;background-image:URL(images/background.jpg);'>
<div id="flash">
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="1102" height="160" id="header2" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="images/header2.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="scale" value="exactfit" /><param name="wmode" value="opaque" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /><embed src="http://www.designsbyvishal.com/banner/header2.swf" quality="high" scale="exactfit" wmode="opaque" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="1102" height="160" name="header2" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</div>

I'm confused on what I should change, sorry --- What should be the code that is changed?

find the places in red... make them point to your movie which is /images/header.swf not header2.swf

WebMaker12

11-28-2007, 12:51 AM

BLiZZaRD

11-28-2007, 05:19 PM

replace that WHOLE thing with this:

<div id="header" style='height:170px;text-align:center;background-color:white;background-image:URL(images/background.jpg);'>
<div id="flash">
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="1102" height="160" id="header" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="images/header.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="scale" value="exactfit" /><param name="wmode" value="opaque" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /><embed src="http://biblical-education.com/images/header.swf" quality="high" scale="exactfit" wmode="opaque" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="1102" height="160" name="header" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</div>

Do this on EVERY page that has the code.