Creating a thumbnail for a Flash (swf) file

Hi NigelGordijk,

Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you on this. I was chasing a red herring. :)

HTML can rescale a flash file, but not thumbnail one.

It seems the way you're currently uploading flash files is into a "wysiwyg" field called "wysiwyg_upload". If you upload your flash files instead into an "upload" field, you can programmatically control their layout.

In your viewer code, you can test to see if a file has been uploaded into an upload field for a record (and whether it's flash or an image,) then display it with a size suitable for that page. The following code makes sure that there is at least one uploaded file in the 'upload' field (and displays nothing if there's not), then deals explicitly with the first one:

<?php if (sizeof($record['upload']) > 0): ?>
<?php if (!strcasecmp($record['upload'][0]['extension'], 'swf')): ?>
<object height="100" width="100" data="<?php echo $record['upload'][0]['urlPath'] ?>" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
<param name="src" value="<?php echo $record['upload'][0]['urlPath'] ?>" />
</object>
<?php else: ?>
<img height="100" width="100" src="<?php echo $record['upload'][0]['urlPath'] ?>">
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Another viewer could specify different height and width values. If the height and width you're using match the height and width you've specified for image thumbnails, you can use "thumbUrlPath" in place of "urlPath" for the <img> tag for faster-loading, nicer-looking pages.

I hope this helps you along!

By the way, you've got a really great-looking site!