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How do I serve flash banners and detect if the browser supports flash?

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Follow these steps precisely:

If you would like to track clicks, you must first prepare your SWF file so that the URL can be dynmically passed to the flash SWF file. For information on performing this step, click here.
From within the Ban Man Pro administrative management console, select the banners folder, then Create A new banner using the Advanced option
Select an Advertiser and Enter a description
Copy and paste your flash code into the box labeled Ad Code.

A sample of code that works well is shown below. This code will detect whether or not Flash is installed and therefore the user will not be prompted to download flash if it is not installed. Rather, an image will be served instead.

In this code you must modify the flash file name from http://www.yourdomain.com/banner.swf to the name of your flash file. This modification is made in two locations. Please use the FULL URL to the SWF file. The ?url=[BanManProURL] is used so that Ban Man Pro can track the clicks on the flash file. You must program your flash file so the clicks can be tracked by following these directions.

You must also modify the width and height of your flash file in two locations.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript>  </SCRIPT> <NOEMBED><A HREF="[BanManProURL]" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="banner.gif" WIDTH=468 HEIGHT=60 BORDER=0></A></NOEMBED> <NOSCRIPT><A HREF="[BanManProURL]" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="banner.gif" WIDTH=468 HEIGHT=60 BORDER=0></A></NOSCRIPT>
Specify the target URL where users are to be redirected to when clicking the image or flash file.
Uncheck the "Use in Netscape 4" box as different code must be specified for Netscape browsers. Netscape requires the code be JavaScript only and it can not contain any comment fields.
Specify the code to be used for Netscape. A sample that works great in Netscape is shown in the text box below. You must edit this code to include your .SWF file name as well as your alternate image for browsers that do not have flash installed. Also specify the height and width in two locations.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript> var ShockMode = 0; if (navigator.mimeTypes && navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"] && navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"].enabledPlugin) { if (navigator.plugins && navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"]) ShockMode = 1; } if ( ShockMode ) { document.write('<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"'); document.write(' codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0"'); document.write(' ID=banner WIDTH=468 HEIGHT=60>'); document.write(' <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.yourdomain.com/banner.swf?url=[BanManProURL]"> '); document.write(' <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=autohigh> '); document.write('<EMBED SRC="http://www.yourdomain.com/banner.swf?url=[BanManProURL]"'); document.write(' swLiveConnect=FALSE WIDTH=468 HEIGHT=60'); document.write(' QUALITY=autohigh'); document.write(' TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">'); document.write('</EMBED>'); document.write('</OBJECT>'); } else if (!(navigator.appName && navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape")>=0 && navigator.appVersion.indexOf("2.")>=0)){ document.write('<A HREF="[BanManProURL]" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="banner.gif" WIDTH=468 HEIGHT=60 BORDER=0></A>'); } </SCRIPT>
Specify the Image source of an alternative image to be used by browsers that do not support JavaScript.
Specify the width and height of the ad.
Click Insert to insert the new banner.
You are now ready to create a campaign and begin serving your flash banner.

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