1. • CommentAuthorianh64
   • CommentTimeNov 21st 2008 edited

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   I have been running monoslideshow for some time. Today, I noticed that it has stopped working on my main website. I think it was fine yesterday. Nothing has changed that I am aware of - that area of my website has been stable for a couple of months.

   My website is <a href="http://www.ianhuttgardendesign.com">www.ianhuttgardendesign.com</a> - there is a slideshow on the right hand side of index.php and a couple of other pages.

   I do have a <a href="http://www.ianhuttgardendesign.com/photos/slideshow/index.html">basic test page</a> on the same server and file area - this works as expected, but it does not use the same trigger code as the main web pages. So my initial worry that slideshow had got corrupted seems to be un-founded.

   My test site (unavailable as its local on my PC) works fine. This is the feeder for my public site. Dreamweaver ensures that test and live public pages can be kept in synch.

   The XHTML trigger/wrapper code is generated hard coded in php - its nothing fancy, just a couple of passed parameters that get slotted into the php echo commands at the appropriate points. The XHTML generated is confirmed identical between local test and public live websites and is as follows:

   <div class="right">
   <script type="text/javascript">
   AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0', 'width','375', 'height','250', 'hspace','0', 'vspace','0', 'align','top', 'title','Intro movie', 'src','/photos/slideshow/monoslideshow', 'flashvars','showLogo=false&showVersionInfo=false&dataFile=monoslideshow.xml', 'pluginspage','http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash', 'bgcolor','#EEEEEE', 'base','/photos/slideshow', 'datafile','monoslideshow.xml', 'movie','/photos/slideshow/monoslideshow' );
   </script>
   <noscript>
   <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="375" height="250" hspace="5" vspace="5" align="top" title="Intro movie">
   <param name="movie" value="/photos/slideshow/monoslideshow.swf" />
   <param name="BGCOLOR" value="#EEEEEE" />
   <param name="FlashVars" value="showLogo=false&showVersionInfo=false&dataFile=monoslideshow.xml" />
   <param name="base" value="/photos/slideshow" />
   <param name="dataFile" value="monoslideshow.xml" />
   <embed src="/photos/slideshow/monoslideshow.swf" width="375" height="250" hspace="0" vspace="0" align="top" flashvars="showLogo=false&showVersionInfo=false&dataFile=monoslideshow.xml" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" base="/photos/slideshow" datafile="monoslideshow.xml"></embed>
   </object>
   </noscript>
   </div>

   HTML website loads without errors, it just does not display any slideshow. I don't think that its even getting as far as running flash as my iPhone would normally show an icon in place of the flash content and this is not appearing.

   At a loss to explain what has happened. My only guess is that an external file/site is referenced by the above, and something has changed, or possibly a version somewhere has updated. But then, it works on my local test site. The only other thing of note is that yesterday I was updating my website using Dreamweaver CS3 and it started updating some pages that I did not want it to so I aborted it. But I have just resynchronised and everything is reported identical but still no slideshow.

   Suggestions please.

   Thanks

   -Ian

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     CommentAuthorchristophvl
   • CommentTimeNov 22nd 2008

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   Ian,
   I would suggest to use swfobject.js to call Flash as it works very reliable; other than that I don't know what's wrong with your code.
   Christoph

3. • CommentAuthorianh64
   • CommentTimeNov 22nd 2008

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   Thanks to Christoph and Richard who pinpointed the issue. The problem was with AC_RunActiveContent.js that was empty on the public machine. I guess that was the file being uploaded at the time I aborted a Dreamweaver multiple page upload.

   Interesting to hear other peoples thoughts on using swfobject.js and what benefits it would give me over the adobe AC_RunActiveContent.js script.

   Thanks again.

   -Ian

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