Detecting Flash Player with PHP

[sstaubin01]

I have a page that runs a .swf movie. It was created with Live Motion 2. A user complains he cannot see the movie with his browser but is able to see other flash movies. I use an Object tag to run the movie. Here is the code:

<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" 
CODEBASE="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" 
ID="AboutTheArtist" WIDTH="435" HEIGHT="25"> 
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="AboutTheArtist.swf"> 
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> 
<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#ffffff> 
<EMBED SRC="AboutTheArtist.swf" QUALITY=high BGCOLOR=#ffffff WIDTH="435" HEIGHT="25" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"> </EMBED> 
</OBJECT>

Is there a way PHP can detect if the user is capable of playing the movie, if not display a static image instead?

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[cyngon]

I don't think its possible to do with PHP because PHP is a server-side language.

PHP would only be able to determine if a browser has flash installed if that information was passed in the headers along with the browser version and platform, etc., which it isn't (as far as I know).

It can, however, be done using Javascript. Some basic detection scripts are available here:

http://www.dithered.com/javascript/flash.html

With those, I suspect it would be a simple matter to detect if a browser is flash enabled and then document.write either the code for the flash movie, or a static image.

-Bryan

[webQS]

Hi
Try :

http://www.sitepointforums.com/showt...hreadid=111379

Cheers
James