Is it possible to

walkities · Jan 11, 2005

Pull flash files from a certain folder on the web server? I have flash banner ads and I was wondering if it was possible to randomize banner ads within a certain directory? Ive been able to accomplish it with images but not with .swf files...

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks

chessbot · Jan 11, 2005

How are you putting the objects on the page?

--Chessbot

"In that blessed region of Four Dimensions, shall we linger on the threshold of the Fifth, and not enter therein? Ah, no! [...] Then, yielding to our intellectual onset, the gates of the Sixth Dimension shall fly open; after that a Seventh, and then an Eighth -- --" Flatland, A. Square (E. A. Abbott)

walkities · Jan 17, 2005

Right now its just a regular Object tag...but I was hoping to find a javascript that randomly displayed flash files from a certain folder on the webserver.

chessbot · Jan 18, 2005

Something like this?

Code:

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--

var srcs = new Array("/flash/flash1.swf", "/flash/flash2.swf", "/flash/flash3.swf");

function chooseFlash()
{
  var obj = document.getElementById("flash");
  var src = srcs[Math.floor(Math.random()*srcs.length)];
  obj.code = src;     // it's one of these, 
  obj.src = src;      // just use whatever attribute
  obj.data = src;     // represents the
  obj.codebase = src; // source
}

// -->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<object id="flash" ...>
 <param ...>
 <param ...>
 <param ...>
 <embed id="flash" ...>
</object>
</body>
</html>

--Chessbot

"In that blessed region of Four Dimensions, shall we linger on the threshold of the Fifth, and not enter therein? Ah, no! [...] Then, yielding to our intellectual onset, the gates of the Sixth Dimension shall fly open; after that a Seventh, and then an Eighth -- --" Flatland, A. Square (E. A. Abbott)

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