Not sure if this is possible or not. I want to set a dynamic flash based web page to display inside a box I create on a Freeway site.
The content is generated by a weather station, and the software that drives it creates a flash page that is constantly updated.
I could get the page to display using frames but I would like to do it from a standard webpage without frames. ideally a case of creating a box, setting up a link to the page and getting it to display.
Is there an action available that will allow this, or is this just not possible without using frames?
Hi Kevin,
If the SWF has a static name then you can just embed this into your
site and it will be pulled from the remote server when your page is
viewed. Obviously you’d want to OK this with the remote server’s
owners as you’ll be using their bandwidth to display this.
Another possible solution is to use something like PHP to scrape the
HTML page, look for the SWF and store it locally so you can display it
on your site. Automate this with a cron job, say every 24 hours, and
the weather information will only be, at most, a day out of date.
Again you’d want to check that you have permission from the host site
to do this. If this is content that they want to see shared they
should be willing to work with you to get this on your site.
Regards,
Tim.
On 15 Jun 2009, at 07:14, Kevin Quigley wrote:
Not sure if this is possible or not. I want to set a dynamic flash
based web page to display inside a box I create on a Freeway site.
The content is generated by a weather station, and the software that
drives it creates a flash page that is constantly updated.
I could get the page to display using frames but I would like to do
it from a standard webpage without frames. ideally a case of
creating a box, setting up a link to the page and getting it to
display.
Is there an action available that will allow this, or is this just
not possible without using frames?