Phlex, IShades,

It's good to see you in the XOOPS world. I have used Mambo, PHP NUKE, POST NUKE, ZOPE, PHPBB, GEEK LOG and a slew of other content managment systems and the truth is XOOPS is about the best and most comprehensive package out there! HANDS DOWN! It just WORKS!! Period!! You don't have to be a rocket scientist to operate XOOPS. "You set it and forget it!" Plain & simple. =0)

Adding a block or new module is smooth! Unlike PHP NUKE or other CMS packages you have to fiddle with code! What a way to mess up your work flow! LOL!

I have Some Extra Flash info for you guys that will possibly help you. I wish you all great success. =0)

For example: Lets say you want to add flash in a block to display on your website you could do it using these different processes:

PLEASE NOTE: YOUR URL (Website Address) TO WHERE YOUR FILE SITS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT! IT IS CRITICAL TO WHERE YOU UPLOAD YOUR "SWF" FILE ON YOUR SERVER.

EXAMPLE: IF YOU ARE USING A PROGRAM LIKE "ANIM FX", IT INCLUDES AN EXTERNAL TEXT FILE. IT NEEDS IT TO FUNCTION PROPERLY, OTHER WISE YOU GET A BLANK BOX WITH NO FLASH DISPLAY.

SO DROP YOUR "SWF" FILE & TEXT FILE IN THE RIGHT LOCATION. REMEMBER THIS IS CRITICAL!

EXAMPLE: IF YOU START YOUR PAGE WITH "NEWS" IT WILL LOOK LIKE THIS:

HTTP://WWW.YOURSITE.COM/MODULES/NEWS/

GUESS WHAT?

YOU HAVE TO PUT YOUR "SWF" FILE IN THAT SAME LOCATION.

THE FILE WOULD BE UPLOADED TO YOUR "MODULES/NEWS/
SECTION. SO IF YOU HAVE A "SWF" FILE AND AN ASSOCIATED "TEXT" FILE TOO, THEY BOTH GO IN THE SAME PLACE. THEN YOUR
FLASH GRAPHIC WILL WORK GREAT! LOOK CLOSELY AT THE STEPS BELOW AT WHAT THE CODE LOOKS LIKE WHEN YOU INSERT IT INTO A BLOCK.

Step 1: Go to your administration section.

Step 2: Select Blocks

Step 3: Scroll Down To Your "Add Blocks" section

Step 4: Add This Code:




OK LETS LOOK AT THIS CODE BROKEN DOWN SOME MORE.



I hope this somehow helps.

If you use "MIX FX" all you do is use the code and set the width and height to your liking. You also set the address to where the file sits and that can be anywhere. Why? Because files like that are self contained. They don't need an external text file like "Anim FX" does. So your "SWF" file sits where you want it.

"Anim FX" needs to have files sit in the "exact location" you set your start page within Xoops. If you set it to start with a chat module guess what? You would need to upload your "SWF" and "TEXT" files to modules/chat/ and if you start your page with a differnet module like "news" you would need to upload your "SWF" & "TEXT" files to modules/news/.

Then your flash animation will work great!

Edit your "Theme" templates with "Macromedia Dream Weaver".
It works really well. Much better than "Microsoft Front Page" will. You can even get a XOOPS extension for Dreamweaver for free from this super cool place http://www.myxoops.com/ to build your own templates from.

Good Luck to all the great XOOP-Sters from around the world!

To all the programers: You guys ROCK!!!! The world of CMS doesn't know that there is a real BEAST out there. XOOPS! Simply put. IT JUST WORKS!!! Period!!

Administration is a dream and if you know how to use a mouse and click on things your GOOD TO GO!!! I needed a group solution when HTML wasn't to friendly on it's own. Not everyone knew HTML but the hero was XOOPS! XOOPS was the best choice! It lets you set admins and other cool things and what's even cooler is a crew like I have can all contribute great stuff without all the coding involved. My Grandma can go in and add her two cents! =0) That is the world of XOOPS! =0)

Thanks so much for great coding. =0)

Sincerely,

Freddy "The Edit" Rivera.

That was an insteresting and very long post.

But all that is needed is set VALUE="<{$xoops_imageurl}>/flash.swf"> and
Sorry for the short post.

j/k