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[halkiede]

hi
i have created a few websites with which mainly have a flash header with the navigation inside the flash movie. I haven't used any content management systems before and this is the first one i have installed. Can i still do it this way. Do i have to use the menu module included.  How would i link the flash buttons to all the pages on my site.
Thanks if someone can help me or point me to some info on using flash in this way with a cms

Rob

[TimothyFoo]

Sure, you can use a Flash movie for your navigation links, but they won't be dynamically generated by the CMS (you'll have to hard code them into the movie), unless you modify the CMS's menu manager to write to an XML file (it might already, I haven't really looked at it) and then use that to feed your Flash movie. Also, you will find that you may not find it easy to get good google rankings as google may not follow your links to index all pages on the site (apparently goggle has gotten better at reading Flash content, but I'm not convinced).

In your config.php file make the following settings:

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$config['internal_pretty_urls'] = true;

$config['use_hierarchy'] = true;

Now if you have a page called "foo" you want to link to, you would attach the following action script to your button:

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on (release){
     getURL ("index.php/foo");
}

To link to the home page you would just use:

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on (release){
     getURL ("index.php");
}