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Deacon272
Flash Intro

  • 2005/9/12 2:17

  • Deacon272

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Is there a way to play a Flash intro prior to having someone enter the XOOPS portion of the site? Once in, the Flash should no longer be accessible until that person log's in again.

TIA,

Deacon
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xafadb
Re: Flash Intro

  • 2005/9/12 2:43

  • xafadb

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Hey Deacon,
you can put a flash intro for your site if you make it part of your index file. I did this for my wedding site
From what i understand you can also use solo's last 2 modules fora simular purpose

hope this helps
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Deacon272
Re: Flash Intro

  • 2005/9/12 2:56

  • Deacon272

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Thanks. This is the type of thing I'd like to do, but in your suggestion won't the Flash play each time a user selects "Home"? Maybe I don't understand the inner nav on this.

If, once a user is signed in, he navigates around and returns Home and index.php is never accessed, then it would work.

I've got to believe that this has been done many, many times and isn't hard to do at all with the proper linking.

Deacon
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xafadb
Re: Flash Intro

  • 2005/9/12 3:25

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nope the page is set to the index file, so its the first thing the user goesto. The only way the flash gets played again is if you retype the url.
If you look at my site you will see that, even with the login screen. you will not return to the flash as you click about
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Deacon272
Re: Flash Intro

  • 2005/9/12 3:42

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I see what you mean, but my Flash is free-standing. It's a separate file with link to swf.

I'd want it to open, link to the XOOPS index.php, and then never be seen again.

I've seen it done by running XOOPS in a sub-directory, but that's a little less elegant.

Deacon
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xafadb
Re: Flash Intro

  • 2005/9/12 3:58

  • xafadb

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right thats why i said to make a part of the index file, onve the user clicks out they dont come back, unless they reload the url

best of luck, this was something i struggled with last year and could not find much assistance with as iam not a programer
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menochi
Re: Flash Intro

  • 2005/9/12 5:46

  • menochi

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I think xafadb has his flash-intro in an index.html file of the xoops-root with a link to index.php
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Deacon272
Re: Flash Intro

  • 2005/9/12 11:48

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Yup, that's just the point. The way I've tested it, index.php seems to always take precedence. I figured that index.html would start first, then I could link index.php at the end of the flash. Doesn't seem to work just that way. It IS the way I'd like it to work, though!!

Deacon
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marook
Re: Flash Intro

  • 2005/9/12 20:47

  • marook

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Quote:

Deacon272 wrote:
Yup, that's just the point. The way I've tested it, index.php seems to always take precedence. I figured that index.html would start first, then I could link index.php at the end of the flash. Doesn't seem to work just that way. It IS the way I'd like it to work, though!!

Deacon


What platform are you on?
If it's Apache, simply move the precedence of the two files from:

<IfModule mod_dir.c>
        DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
IfModule>


to:

<IfModule mod_dir.c>
        DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
IfModule>


in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

Hope it helps..
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Deacon272
Re: Flash Intro

  • 2005/9/12 23:39

  • Deacon272

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Boy, that one's got me stumped. How would I know? I believe my host ISP is using Apache for PHP/MySQL, but I haven't a clue how or where to change the code snippet you mentioned above. Can you be more specific for this "less than techie" oriented guy?

TIA,

Deacon
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