Adding Flash to Header

I tried changing the default template to a Flash Banner (in place of shiny_logo). When I try to load the page it shows the normal page but blank downloading 1 item forever and banner logo area stays blank. Can I not modify the Header/Banner image with a dynamic one?

To change the header logo, you will need to open the index.dwt.php and the page.dwt.php which are located under the themes/Default/templates folder.

Can you send a link to further debug this issue?

I am using Dreamweaver CS5. I did edit the index.dwt.php file. I commented out the Img file and used the Dreamweaver application to insert a flash cs5 (.swf) file. Here is the part of the code:

<div id="header" class="ps_head">
<div class="logo"> <a href="../../../../index.php">
<!-- <img id="headerLogo" alt="logo" src="../../../../images/logo.shiny.png"> -->
<object id="FlashID" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="600" height="100">
<param name="movie" value="../../../../images/Test.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
<param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
<!-- This param tag prompts users with Flash Player 6.0 r65 and higher to download the latest version of Flash Player. Delete it if you don’t want users to see the prompt. -->
<param name="expressinstall" value="../../../../scripts/expressInstall.swf" />
<!-- Next object tag is for non-IE browsers. So hide it from IE using IECC. -->
<!--[if !IE]>-->
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="../../../../images/Test.swf" width="600" height="100">
<!--<![endif]-->
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
<param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
<param name="expressinstall" value="../../../../scripts/expressInstall.swf" />
<!-- The browser displays the following alternative content for users with Flash Player 6.0 and older. -->
<div>
<h4>Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" width="112" height="33" /></a></p>
</div>
<!--[if !IE]>-->
</object>
<!--<![endif]-->
</object>

</a> </div>
<ul class="links">
<?php echo($WAHeaderLinks->Body); ?>
</ul>
</div>

It looks like it is something to do with the flash and the code you are using. I did a quick example by coping a youtube video and it worked fine:

<div class="logo">
<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/auqUJY4mzAs?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/auqUJY4mzAs?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>
</div>

Well, I used the Insert Flash icon from the toolbar to select a Flash file generated in Flash CS5 which was located in the top level images folder of the site. The code that was created was put in there by Dreamweaver. Could you look at the code that was inserted and tell me what is wrong, or can you show the code that would be required to insert a file located in the images folder and not from you tube?

Copy the code that i have provided and replace everywhere that you see:

auqUJY4mzAs?fs=1&hl=en_US

with

../../../../scripts/expressInstall.swf


if you are still having an issue, try zipping the swf file and attaching it to this post so i can try to debug the issue on my end.