Comments on: Zend Framework & Flash

By: Zend Framework on MediaTemple DV by eingko weblog

Zend Framework on MediaTemple DV by eingko weblog — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:21:01 +0000

[...] you’re going to using Flash, make sure to make the change in the .htaccess I mention here. Also, if you plan on uploading images at some point and would like MIME type validation and/or [...]

By: Edward Mungai

Edward Mungai — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:20:39 +0000

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By: diamondTearz » Apache mod_rewrite in Zend and Flex integration- my friend .htaccess

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:59:50 +0000

[...] The first solution that I came across was here. It involves adding swf and .flv suffixes in the rewrite rule. This realization was important because it was the first time that I became truly aware of the rules and their implementation details. [...]

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By: diamondTearz

diamondTearz — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:50:50 +0000

Thank you for this. It started me on the way to a solution to some issues I was having with a Zend AMF application.

By: Archi

Archi — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:18:50 +0000

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By: eingko

eingko — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:15:55 +0000

No, “myPlayer” is the name you will assign to the FLVPlayback component on the stage. “myPlayer.skin = ‘/flash/ClearOverPlaySeekMute.swf’” is the path to the skin file that you assign on a frame (likely, the first) in your .fla file. The .swf will be named whatever your .fla file is named (by default). Make sure that you upload BOTH the player.swf and the skin.swf file to the “public_html/flash” directory.

I would recommend using a relative URL (i.e., “/flash/”), but you can make it absolute if you wish. It should be accessible from any view, as long as you make sure that your URL is correct.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:34:16 +0000

eingko, I’m sure you are on the right track, but I’m still having a few troubles.

When you refer to myPlayer.skin, is myPlayer the name of the .fla file that the swf is published from?

Also, will each Zend Framework view script be able to find the skin if the path specified in the Action Script is relative? Should I do something like myPlayer.skin = “http://www.example.com/flash/ClearOverPlaySeekMute.swf”;

I would like to be able to put the the flash video in the public_html/flash/ directory once and have any of the following controllers be able to render a view of it. (ie. http://www.example.com/index/; http://www.example.com/home/; http://www.example.com/home/about/).

Thanks again for your help.

By: eingko

eingko — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:41:38 +0000

Scott, your video player .swf file is probably looking for the skin .swf file on the root level. You can either drop the skin file on the root (easy) or you can change the directory within which the player searches for the skin .swf file by setting the FLVPlayback.skin value to the directory where you skin is stored.

For example if your skin file is “ClearOverPlaySeekMute.swf” and it’s in the “flash” directory on the root level and your FLVPlayback component is called “myPlayer” you would add a frame script with the following:

myPlayer.skin = "/flash/ClearOverPlaySeekMute.swf";

Hope that answers your question.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:54:29 +0000

eingko, thanks for that bit of advice. I have one related problem that you may know that answer to. I can get the flash video to play fine but it is missing the skin for the video player. Any thoughts? Thanks.