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Embed at MySpace
Page last modified by tdominey on January 02, 2009, at 02:48 PM

Need to embed a SWF containing SlideShowPro for Flash in a MySpace page? Here's how.

Requirements

You'll need a web server to upload your assets to (your SWF, XML, content, etc). MySpace doesn't allow you to upload these files to their web site, so you'll need to independently host them somewhere.

Step One: Upload files

If you created a slideshow using SlideShowPro for Flash by itself, upload your SWF, XML file, and slideshow content to your webhost. If you're using SlideShowPro Director as your content source, you only need to upload your SWF. All content must be hosted from a remote server.

Step Two: Add embed code

Login to MySpace, and anywhere in your profile page add the following:

<embed src="http://www.yourdomain.com/slideshow.swf" 
  width="550" height="400" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
  type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
  pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" 
  scale="showall" name="index" />

Step Three: Modify attributes

Replace the src, width, and height values above with an absolute path to the SWF on your web site, plus its width and height.

Step Four: Create cross domain policy file

Create a cross domain policy file that allows myspace.com to load data from yourdomain.com. You can find instructions for how to do that here.

Note: If you are a subscriber to SlideShowPro Director Hosting, your version of Director contains a "Friendly Domains" utility in the "Preferences" area. Add "myspace.com" through there and Director will create the cross domain file for you automatically.

Step Five: Save

Save the post at MySpace and your slideshow should appear. Here's a live example for what it should look like.

Note: If you go back and edit the post MySpace will have screwed around with the code you entered to make it "acceptable" so it'll look different.


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