Help making olympic medal count block

Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 11:29 am

Basically I am trying to grab a flash file from another website and incorporate it into a block. The flashfile contains the total olympic medal count by country.

Here is the medal count source page I want to include in my block.

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The flash file called:

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Here is the code I have so far:

Code:

<?php 





if (!eregi("modules.php", $PHP_SELF)) { 


die ("You can't access this file directly..."); 


} 


$index = 0; // 0 : do not show right blocks - 1:show right blocks 


require_once("mainfile.php"); 


$module_name = basename(dirname(__FILE__)); 


include("header.php"); 


OpenTable(); 





echo "<object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"> " 


."<param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.tsn.ca/flash/olympics/medals/on_flash_med_table.swf\">"


."<param name=quality value=high> " 


."<embed src=\"http://www.tsn.ca/flash/olympics/medals/on_flash_med_table.swf\"  quality=high pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"></embed>" 


."</object>";





CloseTable(); 


include("footer.php"); 


?>

The error message I am recieving is:

Quote:

You can't access this file directly...

Thanks...incidently I also posted this at NC...don't ask me why Rolling Eyes

registered · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 12:27 pm

You said you was trying to create a block? The above looks more like a module to me Laughing

You should open up one of the blocks already in nuke and take a look how they work, see if you have some more luck.

EDIT:

I had a look at this one, it loads up a preloader then fades to white. I believe the movie is looking for a 2nd movie to play, or the xml with the medal data. In either case its looking for these files on your own server and of course the data is not on your server, so I don't think you will be able to get this flash to work on your site period.

For reference purposes here is the block I knocked up quickly.

Code:




<?php





if (eregi("block-Medals.php", $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])) {


    Header("Location: index.php");


    die();


}





$content = "<object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" id=\"on_flash_med_table\">


<param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.tsn.ca/flash/olympics/medals/on_flash_med_table.swf\">


<param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\">


<param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\">


</object>";





?>

Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 4:08 pm

This code seems to do it. Thanks for the help Smile

Code:

<?php 





if (eregi("block-Search.php", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])) {


    Header("Location: index.php");


    die();


}





$content  .= "<iframe src=\"http://www.tsn.ca/flash/olympics/medals/on_flash_med_table.swf\" name=\"Medals\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" align=\"center\" height = \"275px\" width = \"155px\">"; 


$content  .= " . \</iframe>"; 


?>

Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 4:42 pm

It's dirty but at least it works. Wink

Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 8:05 pm

Here's another one -- using http://cbs.sportsline.com/olympics

Code:

<?php





if (eregi("block-Search.php", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])) {


    Header("Location: index.php");


    die();


}





$content  .= "<iframe src=\"http://cbs.sportsline.com/olympics/box-scoreboards?qs_single=1\" name=\"Medals\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" align=\"top\" width=\"143\" height=\"275\">";


$content  .= " . \</iframe>";


$content  .= "<center><a href=\"http://cbs.sportsline.com/olympics/summer/medaltracker\" target=_blank>All medals</a></center>";


?>

I'm not sure what that if-clause at the top does, but I just left it. Is the if-clause necessary?