Posted by spiritofburning on August 30, 2007 at 7:43pm
I'm designing a church website and we want to have a flash image rotator block on the front page. Ideally, a user could specify images and corresponding links on the back-end. Then the module would take the information and display it as a rotating flash file. When the user clicked on a particular image displayed it would take them to a part of the site.
Have any of you heard of something like this for Drupal? I know it exists for Wordpress and Joomla.
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Has to be Flash?
There is a slideshow module. Is there a reason you require flash?
There is a Flash gallery module. But it looks like the owner is looking for help with it.
I recommend a third party
I recommend a third party tool called Slideshow Pro (http://slideshowpro.net/). It isn't a Drupal module. It's a Flash file. You'll have to embed it into your theme files or nodes.
However, it is elegant and powerful. It even has a backend administration panel.
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Flash Slideshow with XML
If you can programmatically create an xml file listing images, like this:
http://kjzz.org/news/arizona/archives/200708/borderbard/bardonborder/sli...
it's possible you can use the scripts: XML Flash Slideshow:
http://www.flashnifties.com/xml_slideshow.php
Just as we are doing here:
http://kjzz.org/news/arizona/archives/200708/borderbard/
We're not using drupal for this, although the principle behind this could be applied to drupal as well.
Additionally, Google has released an AJAX Slide Show control:
http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/2007/05/ajax-feed-api-slide-show...
which implements a slideshow using a similar, although interestingly, a standards based xml feed called Media RSS:
http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/slideshow/index.html
I haven't used this, but I'm interested in implementing this. Perhaps this will be useful to you or other Drupal developers.
Many paths to solution
For what's worth I used CCK, IMAGECACHE & VIEWS modules to output an unordered list of linked images to a block. I placed the blocks contents on the page using this PHP code and finally I used the jQuery plugin innerfade. It seemed the easiest route since I was already using the aforementioned modules.
Great for flash
These are great flash rotators,
http://www.mooonbaby.com/scripts/flashrotators.html
wouldn't it be a lot easier
wouldn't it be a lot easier to just make ur own flashfile and have it load up the images with the views services and AMFPHP?
http://drupal.org/node/140893
Views Rotator Module
Instead of flash you might want to check out the views rotator module http://drupal.org/project/views_rotator.
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