The gruelling part is over. Now we need to upload a Flash file to our wiki and display it on a page. The Flash.php
extension we uploaded enabled a new tag in our wiki,<flash>
. In addition to this tag, we can add a series of attributes to our page that can manipulate how our movie is displayed. A few of these attributes are shown in the following table:
Attribute |
Value |
Action |
---|---|---|
height |
px or % |
Adjusts the height of the movie |
width |
px or % |
Adjusts the width of the movie |
align |
center, left, right |
Aligns the movie on the page |
menu |
true/false |
Allows a menu to be shown by right-clicking |
play |
true/false |
Automatically play the file or wait at first frame |
To add a movie to a page, we need to have a .swf
file that we want to use. For display purposes, I used a file called Reticulum Rex
from Creative Commons from http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/reticulum_rex/. This video will explain a new form of licensing content for my visitors. If...