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trfletch 598 posts 604 karma points

Aug 19, 2009 @ 16:18

Get url of flash file rather than node ID

Hi,

I have the following XSLT that I am going to use to display a flash file that the user can change, at the moment it is trying to show the flash file by its ID but I of course want the url shown to make it work. I have tried a few different variations such as using Getniceurl but I cannot seem to get it to work. Can anyone help? I'm sure it is fairly simple.

<xsl:variable name="source" select="/macro/source"/>
<xsl:variable name="swfFile" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($source)/data [@alias='pagebanner1']"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<script type="text/javascript">
<![CDATA[
// Previous JavaScript code
var path = "]]><xsl:value-of select="$source" /><![CDATA[";
var videowidth = "]]>500<![CDATA[";
var videoheight = "]]>100<![CDATA[";
// Rest of JavaScript code
var s1 = new SWFObject(path,"Pindar SWF",videowidth,videoheight,"9","#FFFFFF");
s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true");
s1.addParam("allowscriptaccess","always");
s1.addParam("wmode","transparent");
s1.write("container");
]]>
</script>
</xsl:template>

dandrayne 1138 posts 2262 karma points

Aug 19, 2009 @ 16:29

It looks like you might need to use getmedia (if the swfs are stored in the media library)

Here's what I use, allowing the users to choose the swf file using a mediacurrent macro parameter, and set the width and height for each flash file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:Stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;"> ]>
<xsl:stylesheet
    version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
    xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library"
    exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library">


<xsl:output method="html" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
<xsl:variable name="videonode" select="/macro/SettingsNode"/>
<xsl:variable name="videopath" select="$videonode/node/data[@alias='Video']"/>
<xsl:variable name="videoheight" select="$videonode/node/data[@alias='VideoHeight']"/>
<xsl:variable name="videowidth" select="$videonode/node/data[@alias='VideoWidth']"/>

<!-- ============================================================= -->

<xsl:template match="/">
<div id="container"><a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">Get the Flash Player</a> to see this player.</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
<![CDATA[
// Previous JavaScript code
var path = "]]><xsl:value-of select="$videopath" /><![CDATA[";
var videowidth = "]]><xsl:value-of select="$videowidth" /><![CDATA[";
var videoheight = "]]><xsl:value-of select="$videoheight" /><![CDATA[";
// Rest of JavaScript code
var s1 = new SWFObject(path,"Pindar SWF",videowidth,videoheight,"9","#FFFFFF");
s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true");
s1.addParam("allowscriptaccess","always");
s1.addParam("wmode","transparent");
s1.write("container");
]]>
</script>


</xsl:template>
<!-- ============================================================= -->

</xsl:stylesheet>

Using mediacurrent the path is actually sent. You'll need to adjust the xslt to get the file

with yours it might be something like

<xsl:variable name="swfFile" select="umbraco.library:GetMedia(umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($source)/data [@alias='pagebanner1'], 'false')/data [@alias = 'umbracoFile']"/>

Hope this helps

Dan

dandrayne 1138 posts 2262 karma points

Aug 19, 2009 @ 16:31

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If you want to go down the route of allowing users to select the flash file and set the height and width, here's the media type I created to work with the above xslt

http://imgur.com/FNjHu.gif

Enjoy ;-)

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trfletch 598 posts 604 karma points

Aug 19, 2009 @ 16:55

Thanks for the quick response, I have added your line of code and now when I look at the source it is inputting the url to the file but the javascript doesn't seem to be writing the div to the page, I now have the following XSLT, can you see why it would not be writing the div to the page that is showing the flash file?

<xsl:variable name="source" select="/macro/source"/>
<xsl:variable name="banner" select="/macro/banner"/>
<xsl:variable name="swfFile" select="umbraco.library:GetMedia(umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($source)/data [@alias=$banner], 'false')/data [@alias = 'umbracoFile']"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
<div id="flashbanner"><a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">Get the Flash Player</a> to see this player.
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
<![CDATA[
// Previous JavaScript code
var path = "]]><xsl:value-of select="$swfFile" /><![CDATA[";
var videowidth = "]]>500<![CDATA[";
var videoheight = "]]>100<![CDATA[";
// Rest of JavaScript code
var s1 = new SWFObject(path,"Pindar SWF",videowidth,videoheight,"9","#FFFFFF");
s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true");
s1.addParam("allowscriptaccess","always");
s1.addParam("wmode","transparent");
s1.write("flashbanner");
]]>
</script>

</xsl:template>

dandrayne 1138 posts 2262 karma points

Aug 19, 2009 @ 17:17
0
it could be that the script tag is self-closing due to output method of xml?

try
```
<xsl:output method="html" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
```
Otherwise you'll get
```
<script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/swfobject.js" />
```
instead of
```
<script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/swfobject.js"></script>
```
Also "Pindar SWF" could be changed (oops, should have done that myself) - it's the name of the client project where this xslt was originally developed!
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trfletch 598 posts 604 karma points

Aug 19, 2009 @ 17:43

Thanks for the response, it still doesn't seem to be working, I don't know too much about flash but it doesn't seem to be picking up the variables, this is the output I am getting and I would have thought that where it says:

var s1 = new SWFObject(path,videowidth,videoheight

It should be putting in the values from var path, var videowidth etc etc

<div id="flashbanner"><a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">Get the Flash Player</a> to see this player.</div><script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/swfobject.js"></script><script type="text/javascript"> 
 
// Previous JavaScript code
var path = "/media/80/revival.swf";
var videowidth = "100";
var videoheight = "200";
// Rest of JavaScript code
var s1 = new SWFObject(path,videowidth,videoheight,"9","#FFFFFF");
s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true");
s1.addParam("allowscriptaccess","always");
s1.addParam("wmode","transparent");
s1.write("flashbanner");
 
</script>

Once again this is the XSLT that I am using:

<xsl:variable name="source" select="/macro/source"/>
<xsl:variable name="banner" select="/macro/banner"/>
<xsl:variable name="swfFile" select="umbraco.library:GetMedia(umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($source)/data [@alias=$banner], 'false')/data [@alias = 'umbracoFile']"/>
<xsl:variable name="height" select="umbraco.library:GetMedia(umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($source)/data [@alias=$banner], 'false')/data [@alias = 'videoheight']"/>
<xsl:variable name="width" select="umbraco.library:GetMedia(umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($source)/data [@alias=$banner], 'false')/data [@alias = 'videowidth']"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<div id="flashbanner"><a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">Get the Flash Player</a> to see this player.</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/swfobject.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
<![CDATA[
// Previous JavaScript code
var path = "]]><xsl:value-of select="$swfFile" /><![CDATA[";
var videowidth = "]]><xsl:value-of select="$width" /><![CDATA[";
var videoheight = "]]><xsl:value-of select="$height" /><![CDATA[";
// Rest of JavaScript code
var s1 = new SWFObject(path,videowidth,videoheight,"9","#FFFFFF");
s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true");
s1.addParam("allowscriptaccess","always");
s1.addParam("wmode","transparent");
s1.write("flashbanner");
]]>
</script>
</xsl:template>

trfletch 598 posts 604 karma points

Aug 20, 2009 @ 10:27

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Any suggestions on this? I was hoping that this was going to be a simple fix caused by my lack of knowledge of javascript and flashplayer!

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dandrayne 1138 posts 2262 karma points

Aug 20, 2009 @ 10:34
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You seem to be missing the "name" element, but you could make something up. I probably confused it a little by saying you could get rid of "pindar swf" as something does need to be there
```
var s1 = new SWFObject(path,"ANYNAME",videowidth,videoheight,"9","#FFFFFF");
```
-
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trfletch 598 posts 604 karma points

Aug 20, 2009 @ 10:42

Thanks for the quick response, I have added a name but still the output on the page is as follows, it doesn't seem to be putting the variables in but if I try adding <xsl:value-of select="$swfFile" /> directly to var s1 =new SWFObject then that will not work either:

<div id="flashbanner"><a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">Get the Flash Player</a> to see this player.</div><script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/swfobject.js"></script><script type="text/javascript"> 
 
// Previous JavaScript code
var path = "/media/80/revival.swf";
var videowidth = "100";
var videoheight = "200";
// Rest of JavaScript code
var s1 = new SWFObject(path,flashbanner1,videowidth,videoheight,"9","#FFFFFF");
s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true");
s1.addParam("allowscriptaccess","always");
s1.addParam("wmode","transparent");
s1.write("flashbanner");
 
</script>

dandrayne 1138 posts 2262 karma points

Aug 20, 2009 @ 11:22
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```
var s1 = new SWFObject(path,"flashbanner1",videowidth,videoheight,"9","#FFFFFF");
```
The name should be a string, but you've sent it as a variable (that isn't yet defined). Stick quotes around flashbanner1 and see what happens!
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trfletch 598 posts 604 karma points

Aug 20, 2009 @ 11:33

I have tried that and I get the same output but the name now has quotes around it, am I missing some javascript code somewhere? Possibly some reference in my masterpage?

<div id="flashbanner"><a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">Get the Flash Player</a> to see this player.</div><script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/swfobject.js"></script><script type="text/javascript"> 
 
// Previous JavaScript code
var path = "/media/80/revival.swf";
var videowidth = "100";
var videoheight = "200";
// Rest of JavaScript code
var s1 = new SWFObject(path,"flashbanner1",videowidth,videoheight,"9","#FFFFFF");
s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true");
s1.addParam("allowscriptaccess","always");
s1.addParam("wmode","transparent");
s1.write("flashbanner");
 
</script>

dandrayne 1138 posts 2262 karma points

Aug 20, 2009 @ 11:39

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possibly you haven't included swfobject? http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

Your code looks ok, but what error messages are you getting?

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trfletch 598 posts 604 karma points

Aug 20, 2009 @ 12:18

I have included SWFObject, below is the full source output which shows the reference to it, I have also of course put swfobject in the file structcure, the javascript error I get is Uncaught ReferenceError: SWFObject is not defined which is for the line

var s1 = new SWFObject(path,"flashbanner1",videowidth,videoheight,"9","#FFFFFF");

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
 
<head>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/swfobject.js"> 
</script>
<title>dasdas</title>
 <meta name="description" content='sdasd' />
 <meta name="keywords" content='asdasd' />
 
<link href="/css/resets.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="/css/wonderful-default.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="/css/tonys.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="/css/menu.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
 
 
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="/life.aspx?" id="aspnetForm">
<div>
<input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE" value="/wEPDwUENTM4MWRkfsMC/elanNWWKAcNPt59grV7jnU=" />
</div>
 
<div id="container">
<b class="rtop"><b class="r1"></b> <b class="r2"></b><b class="r3"></b> <b class="r4"></b></b>
<div id="logo"></div>
<div id="banner1">
</div>
<div id="menu"><ul><li><a href="/"><span class="orangew">W</span>Home</a></li><li><a href="/life.aspx"><span class="orangew">W</span>life</a></li><li><a href="/community.aspx"><span class="orangew">W</span>community</a></li><li><a href="/training.aspx"><span class="orangew">W</span>training</a></li><li><a href="/contact.aspx"><span class="orangew">W</span>Contact</a></li></ul></div>
 
 
 <div id="movieplayer">
<div id="flashbanner"><a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">Get the Flash Player</a> to see this player.
</div><script type="text/javascript"> 
 
// Previous JavaScript code
var path = "/media/80/revival.swf";
var videowidth = "100";
var videoheight = "200";
// Rest of JavaScript code
var s1 = new SWFObject(path,"flashbanner1",videowidth,videoheight,"9","#FFFFFF");
s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true");
s1.addParam("allowscriptaccess","always");
s1.addParam("wmode","transparent");
s1.write("flashbanner");
 
</script>
movie player</div>
<div id="movielist">
movie list
</div>
 
<div id="banner2and3">
</div>
<div id="footerlinks">FOOTER LINKS</div>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>

trfletch 598 posts 604 karma points

Aug 20, 2009 @ 14:03

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Ok, I have managed to resolve it by changing the swfobject.js file I was using from the one on the website you suggested to an older version that I used on a previous website, not sure what the difference would be in the one from the website you suggested but it was causing it not to work? Maybe I downloaded the wrong file from the site?

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dandrayne 1138 posts 2262 karma points

Aug 20, 2009 @ 14:19

I've been using that embed code for around a year now, so perhaps the method has changed in the new version of swfobject.

*go check*

it's slightly different - here's the new format

<script type="text/javascript">

var flashvars = {};
flashvars.name1 = "hello";
flashvars.name2 = "world";
flashvars.name3 = "foobar";

var params = {};
params.menu = "false";

var attributes = {};
attributes.id = "myDynamicContent";
attributes.name = "myDynamicContent";

swfobject.embedSWF("myContent.swf", "myContent", "300", "120", "9.0.0","expressInstall.swf", flashvars, params, attributes);

</script>

trfletch 598 posts 604 karma points

Aug 20, 2009 @ 18:39

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I see, so it wasn't me being a numpty, thanks for all your help

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