Build XML Flash Gallery

The solutions suggested in this document only apply to the Advanced templates of Photo Flash Maker.

If you use Basic templates to create the flash slideshow, please refer to this help article:

Inserting Flash (.swf) to HTML webpage

1. Creating XML-driven flash slideshow

When you proceed to choose theme template for the photo slideshow, click the Advanced tab. The advanced templates allow you to make dynamic flash slideshow.

2. Saving the photo flash slideshow

Before Photo Flash Maker publishes the flash slideshow project you create, you will be prompted to take care of the output settings as show bellow:

output setting

You can rename the SWF file and HTML document.

Don't rename the XML document, just keep it as "slides.xml". Changing it might cause the SWF file to "Load fail".

3. Managing the documents and assets

In the output folder, you will see several files and folders. These are the data source and assets that keep the flash slideshow play properly when it's embedded into website. The slides folder has the images which have their respective thumbnails present in the thumbs folder. The details of these images are listed in the XML document.

It's suggested that you keep the HTML document with all these assets in the same file folder, and do not rename those three file folders (the "Rees", "slides", and "thumbs", respectively), or you might have to make loads of changes to the XML and HTML documents. Nonetheless, you can re-name the file folder that contains these documents and assets.

output xml file

Often time, you will need to incorporate the PFM-created flash slideshows into an existing HTML document, you can replace the PFM-created HTML document with your own one, but you have to manually add the proper HTML code into the existing webpage.

4. Inserting flash slideshow into webpage

To incorporate the flash slideshows created with Advanced templates into an existing HTML document, you can manually adding the <OBJECT> and <EMBED> tags to the existing page.

1. Open the PFM-created HTML document in a text or HTML editor.

2. Copy the HTML code included in the <object> and <embed> tags (see example below) and paste it into the existing HTML document. This should contain the <OBJECT> and <EMBED> tags.

html code3. Open the existing webpage page, and paste the <object> and <embed> tags into the desired location in the body of the document. This can also be pasted into a table cell or frame.

4. Edit the attributes of the tags for the movie.

5. Upload the HTML and SWF files to the same folder on the Web server.