Flash XML loading problem due to permalinks.

  • Frederik77

    (@frederik77)


    16 years, 11 months ago

    I’m trying to build a Flash game arcade in WP, and it’s coming along very well so far.

    But some game SWFs need to load external files (MP3 and XML) and WP’s permalink rewriting seems to confuse the paths, probably because the SWFs look for the files along the rewritten paths instead of the actual file positions.

    Does anyone know a dynamic solution for this?

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  • madfatter

    (@madfatter)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Hi Frederik77,

    I’m having a the same problem loading an xml file. I have the swf and xml folder in the main wordpress folder at the top level.

    Oddly, it was working fine until I updated to wp 2.8.5. Now the browser reports that it’s looking for the files in, for example if I was on the “example_category” page: mydomain.com/wordpress/example_category/xml when the file is in mydomain.com/wordpress/xml. If I hard code the link (ie instead of the swf loading xml/xml.file it tries to load http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/xml/xml.file) the browser reports no issues but the flash file does nothing.

    Did you find a solution to your problem?

    kaotik78

    (@kaotik78)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    This seems to be the case with flash/xml combos with no reported solution still. Can someone at wordpress add a feature for this?

    jadoux

    (@jadoux)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    It’s really frustrating that no one can even tell us if this has a solution or not, I think flash files with XML references will simply not work

    jadoux

    (@jadoux)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    Figured it out:
    add the following to your embedding script:
    base="http://www.yourdomain.com/flashfolder/"
    Surely replace the path to your own, this should point to where the content, xml and js are located, hope it helps

    parklife

    (@parklife)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    base=”http://www.yourdomain.com/flashfolder/”

    Jadoux – I had to register just to say

    “You’re a star, this worked an absolute treat, thanks very much!”

    valeriedore

    (@valeriedore)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    @jadoux

    You cannot believe how you saved my life right now!! THANKS!!!!

    zachschneider

    (@zachschneider)

    16 years ago

    Here is validated XHTML embed object that is pulling in a video from a XML file. Thank you @jadoux about the base parameter.

    <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="516" height="321" data="http://www.yourdomain.com/flashfolder/container.swf">
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.yourdomain.com/flashfolder/container.swf" />
    <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
    <param name="base" value="http://www.yourdomain.com/flashfolder/" />
    </object>

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