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Joomla! with Flash

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Joomla! with Flash

Overview of this book

You can build any kind of web site using Joomla! The look and feel of Joomla! web sites can largely be customized using the many templates, components, modules and plug-ins available. With all these features, ease of administration, and options for customization, sometimes you may think of integrating other technologies such as Flash with it. This is because Flash provides great animation features that are otherwise not available in Joomla! This book shows how to integrate Flash into Joomla! You will learn how to add the various functionalities provided by Flash and make your site stunning, visually rich, and interactive. The book covers topics like flash headers, menus, displaying and maintaining flash movies, slide shows, animation, interactivity, and more. Installation and use of Joomla! modules like Flash, Joomla Random Flash, Active, and Handy SWF Flash module are covered too. The book introduces Joomla! and Flash and briefly shows the benefits of using Flash in Joomla!. It shows you how to add Flash objects in Joomla! articles and modules, build Flash-based menus, create Flash-based photo galleries, interactive maps, and charts. It also shows you how to display content in custom fonts, create a streaming media site, customize the Joomla! template to display Flash logos, headers and banners, and use Joomla! content in Flash objects. Finally the book covers troubleshooting Joomla! and its extensions. At the end of the book an appendix lists resources on Joomla!, Flash, and related extensions, to help you find more information.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Joomla! with Flash
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface

Adding Flash movies using Simple Video Flash Player


There are some modules available in the Joomla! Extensions Directory that can be used for displaying Flash movies on your site. Some of them are very nice, and Simple Video Flash Player is one such module. You can download it from http://www.joomlaos.de/Joomla_CMS_Downloads/Joomla_Module/ Simple_Video_Flash_Player.html.

This module can play a single video or multiple videos from the playlist. It can also play YouTube videos and supports the following file formats:

  • FLV7 (video)

  • FLV8 (video)

  • H.264 (video)

  • Youtube (video)

  • MP3 (audio)

  • AAC (audio)

  • JPG (images)

  • GIF (images)

  • PNG (images)

As we have mentioned already, it can play videos from a playlist. It supports multiple types of video playlists such as:

  • ASX

  • ATOM

  • RSS + iTunes

  • RSS + Media

  • SMIL

  • XSPFI

Note

If you are not familiar with these formats, then please search on the web and find the specifications. We will be using the ATOM playlist format for our example here. For further details of the file formats...