Flash Banner according to the visited page

visdelou · 28.03.2005, 21:49

Hy Folks!,

I´m loking for a way to solve a litle problem.
I´m trying to pass a variable to a flash banner or header according to page I´m visiting.

Example: When I enter the page "contact" I would like to pass a variable like "contact" to the flash banner, for that purpouse I would like to use the flashvars method.

Does any body have an idea if there ist a way to pass the "page title" to the flashvars? this is one of the ways wich could solve my problem....

A good example working on static pages is this page from EML Labs:
http://www.emllabs.com/_articles/fla...ite/index.html

Thanks.

vrajesh · 29.03.2005, 14:51

I have created one flash mod for this . Check my site,

Regards,

Vrajesh

visdelou · 29.03.2005, 16:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by vrajesh

I have created one flash mod for this . Check my site,

Regards,

Vrajesh

Thanks very much for the farst anwer!
I´m now testing the mod on my test-site and works very fine
I will have to make some modifications and the result will be presented on a few days
Thanks again.

quiquedcode · 30.03.2005, 03:07

hi
post your mods here visdelou
nice work vrajesh !!

visdelou · 31.03.2005, 18:15

...since I don´t know how to create a "Module- Package" and the most work has been done by Mr. Vrajesh I will only describe the modifications I have done.

1:: The Idea: To have a Header Image in flash (fade in effect from alpha 0 -> 100) acording to the selected link, if I click Home then I want to have the home header blend in, thats all.

2:: Install the mod_flashmenu from the pixelthemes.com site and configure it to use "user5"

3:: Create a new place holder in your template, I use "user5" (dimensions 800x150px)

Code:

<div id="header_area">
			<div id="header">
			<?php mosLoadModules ( 'user5' ); ?>
			</div>
			
		</div>

this mod does the most work, it blends the name of the actual section in the site you are surfing on.
To do this it passes a variable $themenuname to a flash file.

I use this variable to load a Picture in jpg format into the flash file, to make this possible I use the "flashvars method", the source and compiled file can be found at EMLLabs

4:: The modifications:

changes in the mod_flash_menuname.php file:

Change the content of the $current variable to this:

Code:

<object 
classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" 
codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" 
			width="800" 
			height="150" 
			id="headerImage">
			<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
			<param name="movie" value="headerImage.swf" />
			<param name="quality" value="high" />
			<param name="bgcolor" value="#222222" />
			<param name="flashvars" value="imageName=$themenuname.jpg" />
			<embed 
				src="headerImage.swf" 
				flashvars="imageName=$themenuname.jpg" 
				quality="high" 
				bgcolor="#222222" 
				width="800" 
				height="150" 
				name="headerImage" 
				allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" 
				type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
				pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
		</object>

upload the headerImage.swf from EMLLabs to the root of your site and also upload some jpg´s with the name of the sections: Home.jpg, Blog.jpg, Contact.jpg...etc

If every thing went fine you will see your header blending in like here: visdelou.tollfreepage.com