Dynamic Flash banner in Dreamweaver

Hi Everyone,
I am using Dreamweavers' Development toolkit and can upload
images such as JPG and GIF files to my server and add their file
name to a MySQL database. This allows me to then dynamically recall
them and add a rand() function to the recordset for a banner
application.
My challenge is that I want to also be able to upload flash
(swf) files to my server and add the file name to the database.
Thant I can do, whoever when I go to display them through a
recordset, the normal JPG etc images show but not the swf files.
Can anyone help me find a solution?
Many thanks in advance.
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"Amots" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I made a flash file which load dynamic text for external
.txt file into a
> scroll box. Now, when I add the swf file into my .aspx
page in dreamweaver
> there is a problem. The scroller load alright but the
text is not shown
> up.
>
> ( i saved the txt folder into the same folder of ny site
so it's not the
> problem.)
> I work with CS3 and built my project by AS3.
>
> thanks,
> KDEN
>

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page in dreamweaver there is a problem. The scroller load alright
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page in dreamweaver
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template, you must use a Site Root relative path for it.
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