I like this product very much. Lately I have been trying to put a dynamic slideshow on a realty website. I can get the images to load dynamically and play. It looks good. My question is.... Is it possible to pass a parameter to the slideshow so that I can have it in another window to show the slideshow for any model?
I have tried and I keep getting a slideshow for the one model.
Thanks in advance,

Hi eddie,

I have tested Active Slideshow Pro with passing parameter both with Session variable and URL and it work without any problems.

For example:

* Using Session variable:
In the page with the slideshow set the Session variable:
<i>&lt;%Session("imagegroupid" = 17 %&gt;</i>
and into the Asp file that generate the xml read it and use it for selecting the appropriate images:
<i>Dim rsImages__MMColParam
rsImages__MMColParam = "1"
If (Session("imagegroupid" &lt;&gt; "" Then
rsImages__MMColParam = <b>Session("imagegroupid"</b>
End If</i>

* Using the parameter into the URL.
<i>&lt;object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="250" height="200" id="storm" align="middle"&gt;
&lt;param name="FlashVars" value="<b>xmlFile=storm.asp?imagegroupid=&lt;%= "17" %&gt;</b>&preloaderBackColor=0x0099FF&preloaderBorderColor=0xCCCCCC" /&gt;
&lt;param name="movie" value="slideshowpro.swf" /&gt;
&lt;param name="quality" value="best" /&gt;
&lt;param name="scale" value="noscale" /&gt;
&lt;param name="wmode" value="window" /&gt;
&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;
&lt;embed src="slideshowpro.swf" id="storm" wmode="window" quality="best" FlashVars="<b>xmlFile=storm.asp?imagegroupid=&lt;%= "17" %&gt;</b>&preloaderBackColor=0x0099FF&preloaderBorderColor=0xCCCCCC" scale="noscale" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="250" height="200" pluginspage="www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /&gt;
&lt;/object&gt;</i>
And into the Asp file that generate the xml read it with <b>Request.QueryString</b>
<i>Dim rsImages__MMColParam
rsImages__MMColParam = "1"
If (Request.QueryString("imagegroupid" &lt;&gt; "" Then
rsImages__MMColParam = <b>Request.QueryString("imagegroupid"</b>
End If</i>

Thant's it. I hope this helps you.

Regards,

Georgi Kralev

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George,
Thanks for the help. I am so sorry, but I am using php not asp and I need to know how to do this with php.
Thanks again for your help,
Eddie

Hi George,
One other point I need to make is that I do not want to use session variables. I want all users to be seeing the same data. I want to make a realty type slideshow of images for different homes. I want the slideshow to show all of the images for home 1 when someone clicks on that homes detail page. Then I want the same detail page to show all of the images for home 2 when someone clicks on that home and goes to the detail page.
Thanks again in advance for your help,
Eddie Young

Hi eddie,

If you do not want to use Session variables then you can pass the parameter into the URL.
For example:
<i>
&lt;object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="450" height="300" id="dynslideshow" align="middle"&gt;
&lt;param name="FlashVars" value="<b>xmlFile=dynslideshow_xml.php?imagegroupid=&lt;?php echo 1 ?&gt;</b>&preloaderBackColor=0x0099FF&preloaderBorderColor=0xCCCCCC" /&gt;
&lt;param name="movie" value="slideshowpro.swf" /&gt;
&lt;param name="quality" value="best" /&gt;
&lt;param name="scale" value="noscale" /&gt;
&lt;param name="wmode" value="window" /&gt;
&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;
&lt;embed src="slideshowpro.swf" id="dynslideshow" wmode="window" quality="best" FlashVars="<b>xmlFile=dynslideshow_xml.php?imagegroupid=&lt;?php echo 1 ?&gt;</b>&preloaderBackColor=0x0099FF&preloaderBorderColor=0xCCCCCC" scale="noscale" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="300" pluginspage="www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /&gt;
&lt;/object&gt;</i>

And in the php file that generate the xml code you can get the variable and use it for selecting the appropriate database records.
For example:

<i>$colname_rsImages = "-1";
if (isset($_GET['imagegroupid'])) {
<b>$colname_rsImages = $_GET['imagegroupid'];</b>
}
mysql_select_db($database_cnn_TestDB, $cnn_TestDB);
$query_rsImages = sprintf("SELECT * FROM images WHERE userId = %s", GetSQLValueString(<b>$colname_rsImages</b>, "int");
</i>

I hope this helps you.

For more information you can also check the following FAQ:
www.dmxzone.com/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=13948
(It is for Flash Album Generator 2 but the approach could be used for Active Slideshow Pro).

<b>NOTES:</b>
1. The above code and FAQ are tested only on Windows XP, IIS 5.0 and PHP 5.2
2. This solution comes without warranty or support of any kind.

Best regards,

Georgi Kralev

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