Re: Flash detection

From the flash macromedia site, they suggest making a movie that is a couple frames long as as small dimensions as possible, at the end of it you have a redirect. Within the HTML itself you have refresh to the non flash page that happens a little after the flash movie would have redirected. Jason Murray <Jason.Murray@melbourneit.com.au> wrote in message news:1595534C9032D411AECE00508BC766FB34FC0A@mercury.mit... > Bill wrote: > > There is a very easy and (I think) fool proof way to detect Flash. > > (I am not a Flash or Php expert, but I use this on both of my sites). > > > > Create a Flash movie that has only 2 frames. > > The 2nd frame should have the action to Get > URL(http://yourflashpage.html). > > Generate the Html file, and add a meta tag which redirects the browser > > to the non-flash page after (say) 10s. > > I think that'll work, but it's still reliant on Flash being present. > > Since PHP cannot check the incoming browser for Flash abilities, this needs > to be done in JavaScript. I pulled the following code together for Flash > detection on a site earlier this year, it seems to work reasonably well: > > <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> > <!-- > file://Look for a version of Internet Explorer that supports ActiveX (i.e., one > that's > file://running on a platform other than Mac or Windows 3.1) or a browser that > supports > file://the plugin property of the navigator object and that has Flash Player > 2.0 > file://installed. > > if ((navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer" && > navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Mac") == -1 && > navigator.appVersion.indexOf("3.1") == -1) || > (navigator.plugins && > navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"]) || > navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash 2.0"]) > { // Go ahead and play the Flash. > document.write('<TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 > BORDER=0><TR><TD>\n'); > document.write('<OBJECT --blah-->\n'); > document.write(' <PARAM --blah-->\n'); > document.write(' <EMBED --blah--></EMBED>\n'); > document.write('</OBJECT></TD></TR>\n'); > document.write('</TABLE><BR>\n'); > document.write('<A HREF="mainpage.php3"><B>Main > Menu</B></A>\n'); > } > else > { file://Load a pre-defined HTML page without Flash Player into the browser > window. > window.location='mainpage.php3'; > } > // --> > </SCRIPT> > > Of course, you'll need to add a <NOSCRIPT> tag to do the <META> > redirection... > client didn't want it, so it's not here sorry :) > > Jason > > -- > Jason Murray > jasonm@melbourneit.com.au > Web Design Team, Melbourne IT > Don't believe everything you're foretold. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >