[Abraham Chaffin]

Thanks Stephen!

I’m sure we’ll see Lone Peak Productions in the list soon as well. That will make it twice as good =)

Happy New Year!

Abraham

[Abraham Chaffin]

There are other restrictions on being able to edit your post which ensures that any random Joe will not be editing your post. We try to make the site easy to use while holding tight security. Though passwords may be the most widely recognized means of employing security we have chosen to only use passwords for updating your actual account settings.

Abraham

[Abraham Chaffin]

You would use the javascript function like this:

function clicker(){
	var thediv=document.getElementById('displaybox');
	if(thediv.style.display == "none"){
		thediv.style.display = "";
		thediv.innerHTML = file_get_contents("https://www.creativecow.net/404.html");
	}else{
		thediv.style.display = "none";
		thediv.innerHTML = '';
	}
	return false;
}

The changed line is the line:

thediv.innerHTML = file_get_contents(“https://www.creativecow.net/404.html”);

Abraham

[Abraham Chaffin]

You could use the javascript equivalent to php’s file_get_contents:

https://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/javascript_equivalent_for_phps_file_get_contents/

function file_get_contents( url ) {
    // https://kevin.vanzonneveld.net
    // + original by: Legaev Andrey
    // + input by: Jani Hartikainen
    // + improved by: Kevin van Zonneveld (https://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // % note 1: This function uses XmlHttpRequest and cannot retrieve resource from different domain.
    // % note 1: Synchronous so may lock up browser, mainly here for study purposes. 
    // % note 1: To avoid browser blocking issues's consider using jQuery's: $('#divId').load('https://url') instead.
    // * example 1: file_get_contents('https://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/pj_test_supportfile_1.htm');
    // * returns 1: '123'
 
    var req = window.ActiveXObject ? new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP") : new XMLHttpRequest();
    if (!req) throw new Error('XMLHttpRequest not supported');
    
    req.open("GET", url, false);
    req.send(null);
    
    return req.responseText;
}

Pretty slick little function here.

Abraham

[Abraham Chaffin]

It could be setup in many different ways.

One way to set it up would be to have a CMS (content management system) where you could login and change any elements of the website that you would wish. This could then dynamically change fields or elements in the flash site. This would mean your designer would have to have more than just knowledge of flash though but should be possible for most skilled web technicians.

Another way to set it up would be to have specific files that you could update via FTP which the Flash site is reading when it loads.

The .FLA file is equivalent to the .PSD but Flash is much more dynamic in its ability to grab content so you should be just limited to editing the .FLA file to change the content of the site. Though I suggest you do have the web developer send you a copy of the .FLA file when they get done in case a future web developer needs it.

Abraham

[Abraham Chaffin]

An all flash site would work well for what you are going for. Only difficulty is the learning curve of learning the Adobe Flash application. It’s not as easy to get started building a website in Flash as it is to build a website with HTML. The learning curve, however is not too great with all the online tutorials there are available.

Flash is also very open ended so you really need to know what you are going for at the onset of your project and how to accomplish it using Flash. Otherwise you could get lost pretty quickly trying to piece together your flash website.

Abraham

[Abraham Chaffin]

Carlos,

You don’t need any of the AC_Run_Content code. You should only need the object and embed tags for the embedding of the swf file.

The purpose of the AC_Run_Content code is to bypass IE’s flash suppression by embedding the dynamic content via javascript. This is not needed inside of the javascript since you are already using javascript to embed the content into the page.

Besides that you only need to make sure you don’t have any double quotes in your code or that you are escaping them with a backslash.

Abraham

[Abraham Chaffin]

Align the table that is holding the flash video to the center:

Line 37:

<table style=”width: 550px; height: 400px” cellpadding=”0″ cellspacing=”0″ class=”style2″ align=’center’ >

Abraham

[Abraham Chaffin]

lol

That’s too funny

Abraham

[Abraham Chaffin]

Curtis,

I fall under the same category and agree 100%. Strangely enough though, you’re the first person I’ve heard share this vantage point.

Abraham