Flash Image Rotator Module - Does one exist?

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spiritofburning's picture

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?

skor's picture

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

ericatkins's picture

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

johntynan's picture

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

pcmeissner's picture

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

kess's picture

These are great flash rotators,
http://www.mooonbaby.com/scripts/flashrotators.html

wouldn't it be a lot easier

seutje's picture

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

mfer's picture

Instead of flash you might want to check out the views rotator module http://drupal.org/project/views_rotator.

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