PicnicTutorials Posted March 18, 2011 Report Share Posted March 18, 2011 (edited) Hello, Someone else built this site a long time ago and I am cleaning it up. I have a flash menu (with html backup) that is embedded on each page. I put this menu into a php include. All good! But this morning I realized that each page has a different .swf called in the menu (e.g. home.swf, learning.swf, etc). All the links seem to still work fine however. So it seems to be the same menu on each page. I dont know enough about flash (nor have a flash editor to see) to know whats going on in the swf exactly. So why would the original web dev have a seperate swf for each page? Do I need each one? So do I need to take it out of the include? Or can I just use one single swf file for the menu? Guesses welcome. Thanks! Example of my include... <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="250" height="400"> <param name="movie" value="aboutus.swf"> <param name="wmode" value="opaque"> <!--[if !IE]>--> <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="aboutus.swf" width="250" height="400"> <param name="wmode" value="opaque"> <!--<![endif]--> alt content <!--[if !IE]>--> </object> <!--<![endif]--> </object> Edited March 18, 2011 by Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkencreative Posted March 18, 2011 Report Share Posted March 18, 2011 It's possible that the original developer simply didn't know what they were doing. I ran across this just recently -- worked on a site where the developer didn't seem to understand that you could enclose an image with link tags, so they image mapped everything instead of using simple <a> tags... If it's working fine with one menu, it's probably safe to assume that they are all the same. Are they all the same file size? You can always make a backup of the duplicate menus, and put it back in place if something comes up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PicnicTutorials Posted March 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2011 Thanks Ben. That's what I think I'll do. If it works then I'm running with it I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newseed Posted March 18, 2011 Report Share Posted March 18, 2011 Might pay attention to menu's current state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PicnicTutorials Posted March 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2011 Might pay attention to menu's current state. Yes your right Eddie. Thank you. I came to that conclusion also. Amazing I missed that originally. Now I'm working on keeping it in the include but calling the separate links. Might want to save this snippet for later... http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/php-34/different-linked-files-same-php-include-743592.html#post4836875 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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