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PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS VERY OLD ARCHIVE INFORMATION AND MAY NOT FUNCTION ON NEW SERVERS

Shockwave Flash

Shockwave Flash It is easy to include Shockwave Flash multimedia presentations on your web site. You can use Flash content to add high-impact graphics, animation, and interactivity to your web site.

Serving Shockwave Flash Content

You may need to add the following MIME types to your ~/www/conf/mime.types file: 

application/x-shockwave-flash  swf cab
application/futuresplash       spl

NOTE: After you make changes to the mime.types file, you need to restart your Apache web server so that the changes are recognized. You can do this by connecting to your Virtual Server and executing the command restart_apache. 
% restart_apache

Embedding Flash Content in a Web Page

In order to embed your filename.swf Flash content in a web page, include at least the following HTML code: 

<OBJECT WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400">
 <PARAM NAME="MOVIE" VALUE="filename.swf">
 <EMBED SRC="filename.swf">
 </EMBED>
</OBJECT>

The OBJECT tags are for Microsoft Internet Explorer and the EMBED tags are for Netscape Navigator. Substitute the filename of your Flash content for filename.swf. You can adjust and add other paramaters as you like.

Here is an example:

<IMG src="media/tut_wsound.gif" WIDTH=275 HEIGHT=200 BORDER=0 ALT=" [You need Shockwave.]">
From: Intro to Flash by Michael Kay.

More Information

A great Intro to Flash tutorial is available at the Webmonkey: A How-to Guide for Web Developers site.

PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS OLD ARCHIVE INFORMATION AND MAY NOT FUNCTION ON NEW SERVERS