Don’t lie… we’ve all seen your profile. hahaha

Got this email from a person in need & get asked this question pretty often, so I thought I would post it.

Hey, i was checking out one of your custom myspaces of rocket clothing and wondered if you could help me with something you did on it. I see that the JW player has been used on their profile, how did you bypass the java coding it needed to embed into myspace? If you could help me at all it would be much appreciated.

We presume we have a player.swf file located in the same directory as the HTML page it’s embedded in. Note that javascript interaction does NOT work with an embed code; you’ll need to use the SWFObject method for that.

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<embed
  src="player.swf"
  width="300"
  height="300"
  allowscriptaccess="always"
  allowfullscreen="true"
/>

Of these parameters, the most important one is the src. This contains the location of the SWF file to include, here player.swf. If the SWF file resides in another directory, we can point to it with a relative path (eg. ../flash/player.swf or an absolute path (eg. http://www.myserver.com/flash/player.swf).

The width and height parameters comply with the width and height of the SWF in pixels, but they can also be entered as a percentage of the SWF container (eg: width=”100%”).

sorry brew, here is how you handle that…

A very good, freely available javascript to use for this embed proces, is the SWFObject script by Geoff Stearns. To use it, first upload the swfobject.js to your server and include it in the section of your website:

<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>

Second, give the HTML element in which the SWF should be placed a unique id:

<div id="flashbanner">this will be replaced by the SWF.</div>

Third, instantiate an SWFObject below the named HTML element and put all parameters in there.

<script type="text/javascript">
  var so = new SWFObject('player.swf','mpl','300','250','9');
  so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
  so. addParam('flashvars','file=playlist.xml&autostart=true');
  so.write('flashbanner');
</script>

The SWFObject instance will create the code needed to embed the player.swf. It sets it’s dimensions to 300 by 250 pixels and also sends the flashvars for the file and autostart variables.

Remember to check your URLs and make sure you are using full paths to your files, eg. http://www.yoursite.com/player.swf, this has to be done I have noticed for the player to function in myspace…

stand by, i will get this for you…

Joel, that works perfect man! Seems that instead of using the so.variable coding the param name takes it’s place. I’m not 100% sure how this code works without including the js file but it works!

Thanks so much Joel!

Hey,

I’ve been following the steps and i’ve got to the point where my image rotator is on my myspace. But for some reason my SWF file, doesn’t seem to work!

But it works as a normal java script.

Any help would be awesome!

Thanks!
Jim

The SWF file is hosted on my site. i mean when i view the imagerotator.html file. My files can be viewed easily

thanks for the reply btw!

Jim

what is the server info sorry i’m abit of a noob! haha

yea i did all that,

Take a look yourself heres the link to my myspace

http://www.myspace.com/holynightclothing

and this is my code i used:

can’t seem to place the code down

sorry noob question again, what do you mean by parameters?

<param name="flashvars" value="file=
/>

Yea i did that already, it just didn’t show up when i posted my version