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I can’t for the life of me get SSP and swfobject to work in EE.

Once I can get it working without any dynamic information being fed to it, I’m hoping that the existing tutorials will work to get the slideshow working with a dynamic xml feed. Ultimately the goal is to have a slideshow for each weblog entry within a “graphics-projects” template group.

I’d really appreciate any help anyone can offer…

What i have currently is this template:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="graphics-projects" limit="1"}
        
<div id="hero"> 
Alternate Flash Content
</div>

<div id="contentContainer" class="clearfix">
    <div id="main">    
<!-- a bunch of dynamic information here for the actual weblog post -->
    </div><!-- end main -->

{/exp:weblog:entries}

and this is in the head:

[removed][removed] 
    [removed]
    var flashvars = {};
    var params = {};
    var attributes = {};
    swfobject.embedSWF("http://dykeman.dev/index.php/swf/ssp.swf", "hero", "930", "315", "9.0.0", false, flashvars, params, attributes);
    [removed]

The “ssp.swf” file has the following for it’s xml file path:

<a href="http://dykeman.dev/index.php/embeds/ssp_xml">http://dykeman.dev/index.php/embeds/ssp_xml</a>

And the “ssp_xml” template (type: xml) looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gallery>
    <album lgPath="http://dykeman.dev/index.php/images/graphics-projects" tnPath="http://dykeman.dev/index.php/images/graphics-projects/thumb" title="Album title" description="Album description" tn="album1/preview.jpg">
        crmLogo.jpg
        crmPrint.jpg
    </album>
</gallery>

The album lgpath is correct in that there is a folder there with the listed images inside.

Everything looks right, however I just get a blank white screen where my images should be (see attached image).

I’ve been banging me head trying to get this to work. I can get it to work just fine outside of EE on just a static HTML site…

Hiya,

Usually the main problem with flash is that the URL isn’t set correctly to the .swf file but it looks like you are linking directly to the .swf so that shouldn’t hopefully be the problem.

I must say though that I wasn’t able to get to

http://dykeman.dev/index.php/embeds/ssp_xml

or

http://dykeman.dev/index.php/swf/ssp.swf

I just get an error message saying that the server can’t be found. Don’t know if that’s anything to do with it though? Are you experiencing any server issues at the moment?

Best wishes,

Mark

developing on MAMP currently.

Hmm,

Could be a little more difficult to pinpoint this one then 😉

What browser are you using - Safari or Firefox?

If you try it in Safari and then bring up the Window->Activity window what does it say about your .swf file? Is it loading in or not?

Best wishes,

Mark

thanks, that helped me figure out why the slides weren’t showing - i couldn’t grok that the url path in the flash file, the path in swfobject and the paths within the xml file must all be relative to where the swf is EMBEDDED via swfobject, as opposed to where it resides in the site folder structure - am i understanding that correctly, now?

Within in EE, not exactly.  But you should be able to point to everything using an absolute URL and it should work fine (SWF, XML and JavaScript).

However, the problem looks to be your path to your XML. When I go to pull: http://www.dykeman.dev/index.php/embeds/ssp_xml I get a page error.  It should pull your XML.

Same for the path to your swf file: http://dykeman.dev/index.php/swf/ssp.swf  That should come up too.

As i mentioned above, I’m developing in MAMP - it’s on my local machine, NOT on the internet(s) 😉

Thanks for the help, I’ve got things working, now - it had to do with discrepencies in the URLs and file paths.

Hiya,

Sorry I didn’t get back sooner on this one - was watching Oceans 13! 😊

Glad you have it all sorted now. Thought it would be file paths somehow 😉

Best wishes,

Mark

Ok - I am so close now! I can get it working dynamically on a per-entry basis according to this thread: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/75062/

But only if i haven’t removed index.php from the URL according to the exlude method listed here: http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Remove_index.php_From_URLs/#Exclude_List_Method

The minute I place my .htaccess file in the root to remove index.php nothing works, even if I re-write my paths without the index.php…

This is what’s in my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(images|system|themes|css|Scripts|favicon\.ico|robots\.txt|index\.php) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

Here is what things look like when it DOES work, without the .htaccess file

HEAD:

[removed][removed]
    [removed][removed]

PROJECT CONTENT:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="graphics-projects" limit="1"}
    [removed]
    var flashvars = {xmlfile: "http://dykeman.dev/index.php/embeds/ssp_xml/{entry_id}"};
    var params = {allowScriptAccess: "always"};
    var attributes = {};
    swfobject.embedSWF("http://dykeman.dev/swf/ssp.swf", "hero", "930", "315", "9.0.0", false, flashvars, params, attributes);
    [removed]

<div id="hero"> 
Alternate Flash Content
</div>

EMBEDS/XML_PHP/:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gallery>
    <album id="{segment_3}">
    {exp:weblog:entries dynamic="off" entry_id="{segment_3}" limit="1"}
        {slideshow_images}
        {file_url}
        {/slideshow_images}
    {/exp:weblog:entries}
    </album>
</gallery>

Can someone help me figure out what I need to do to make it work WITH the .htaccess file to remove index.php from the urls?

Thank you so much - i am this close to accomplishing what I’ve been banging my head over for almost 48 hours… (perhaps I’m just slow, but I’m new to EE, not to mention slideshowpro and swfobject!)

I’m having the same issue as well with the htaccess not allowing the SWF file to show.  Anyone know how to resolve this?