How to make a Flash Sig work?

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:45 am

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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:03 am

The attachment mod is completely different to forum signatures.
The link you postsed clearly uses BBCode so there must be something in the bbcode.php which is not correctly handling the swf file.

If your forum has 'html' enable in the forum config, have you tried using the html code instead? You'll need to add the EMBED and OBJECT html tags to the 'allowed' html in the forum config.
Generally speaking, it is a bad idea to allow embedding flash objects as malicious code can be added to the action event.

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:35 am

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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:26 am

As I said, the BBCode tags will not work unless the bbcode.php file is modified to 'interpret' it.
I'm assuming from your last post you have tried using html (instead of BBCode) and even though you have 'allowed' them in the forum config it isn't showing up.
Do you have a link to a post with the code being used so I can see what is still getting striped out?

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:35 am

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Theme Guru Joined: Nov 01, 2003 Posts: 1006

I have always found that this is a bad practice. I no longer allow any type of SWF to used. It causes too many security risks.

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:13 pm

Looks like you have spaces in the link which is getting encoded as %20 so the first thing is to remove spaces and any other special characters you have except hyphens and underscores.

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:18 pm

On the link that you have provided I see the flash signiture working. I assume that you have figured out whatever issue you had. Is this correct?

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:49 am

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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:25 am

Windows servers probably don't mind spaces in file names, unfortunately Linux does mind and it is also case sensitive where Windows isn't.
It is not a good thing to have spaces in a file name so I suspect the filtering we use in RN is different to that used in Evo and that is why the 'space' is getting encoded.
Did you actually try it with no spaces?

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:05 am

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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:09 am

Are these the two ESRIDER flash images that are not working (the bottom one has sound)?

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:56 am

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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:20 am

I am confused about this. When I view the link I clearly see both of the flash signitures working. I can mouse over them and hear the music play as well. Except for the [center] codes showing, what is the issue? Forgive me if I have missed something in this post. Please clairify. Thank you.

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:17 pm

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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:19 pm

What is your url? Can you provide a direct link to the forum showing the issue?

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:51 pm

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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:53 pm

Can you open the forums up so that registration isn't needed for the testing of this problem? I don't actually wish to sign up.

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:32 am

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Worker Joined: Oct 05, 2003 Posts: 107 Location: Illinois

Most likely some of the edits for the bbcode mod are not complete. Which bbcode version are you adding since there are several out?

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:37 am

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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:09 am

It works because I have done it, There are a couple bbcode mod versions that required different edits than it said in the instructions so that might be the issue. What version of rn are you using?

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:35 am

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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:49 am

It has nothing to do with RN, the mod is clearly not installed correctly. As you say you followed the instructions then the instructions must be wrong (which Loki mentioned).
Loki giving you a link to a flash image is not going to make it work either as the mod is clearly not working, so therefore it is not interpreting what to do correctly with the flash content.

If you want help, please answer the questions that are asked otherwise we are going to be hear a long time.

Since you didn't answer the question "which version", let's try and establish it.
I think the latest version of the Advance BBCode MOD is version 5.1 (I'm sure Loki will correct me if I'm wrong) and yes, the instructions were wrong for that one.
The install procedure and some code were corrected and sent back to the site they were downloaded from www.clan-themes.co.uk so they should have a good copy of the MOD - though it does not include the shoutbox.

Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:33 pm

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