Embed flash slideshow to the website built by CMS Joomla and create Joomla photo slideshow.

At present, more and more people utilize CMS (Content Management System), such as Joomla, WordPress, to build their own website. This gives users a great convenient way to build their own website. Those CMS allows to users to add articles, pictures and other meida files, and those CMS (such as Joomla) support editing articles in Hmtl mode. Therefore, those websites built by Joomla supports embeddding flash slideshow. The flash slideshow embedded to Joomla can enrich the website content and attractive more visitor.

Joomla content management system support directly inserting the swf file to the webpage. But Flash Gallery Maker only generates xml+driven flash slideshow, not standalone swf file. Thus if you create flash slideshow with Flash Gallery Maker and want to embed it to webpages created with Joomla content management system, you should copy and and insert the html source code generated by Flash Gallery Maker into your webpage, rather than inserting from the Joomla content editor.

Flash Gallery Maker will generate an output folder, which includes swf file, xml file, html file and other resources. Please upload those files and resources to one folder on web server via Joomla content management system. Please see the following screenshot.

upload flash slideshow and other resources to web server

In the Article Editor of your Joomla system, please click the "Edit HTML Source" button to open the HTML editor, and paste the source code into where you want the Flash to show up. See the screenshot below.

edit html code

In order to show this flash slideshow correctly on website, you need to change the file path according the file path on web server, for example, if you upload/store all Flash assets in the directory of "images/flash/", then you should add the file path to the HTML code as highlighted below:


<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" width="100%" height="100%">
<param name="movie" value=" images/flash/advanced_mirror.swf?xml_path=images/flash/slides.xml " />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" />
<param name="_flashcreator" value="http://www.photo-flash-maker.com" />
<param name="_flashhost" value="http://www.go2album.com" />
<embed src="images/flash/advanced_mirror.swf?xml_path=images/flash/slides.xml" width="100%" height="100%" quality="high" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" allowScriptAccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" ></embed>
</object>

Save the changes, now the flash slideshow should be able to play on your website.