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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

Issues related to Flash


When using Joomla! with some Flash content, you may face problems which can be attributed to Flash. We often tend to find bugs in applications, which in fact originate from supporting technologies like Flash. This section illustrates these issues.

Flash 10 and Joomla! Flash Uploader

Many Flash-based web uploaders do not work with Flash 10. Joomla! 1.5.x has a Flash-based uploader. You can enable it by selecting Yes for the Enable Flash Uploader field in Site | Global Configuration | System. Once this Flash uploader is enabled, it should look as shown in the following screenshot:

First, the uploader lists the files selected for upload. You can select multiple files and upload them at the same time. When the Start Upload button is clicked, the files start uploading and a progress bar for each file is displayed. When the upload is finished, you will see the progress bars shown in the following screenshot:

This Flash uploader may not work as shown here when you are using...