Kimili Flash Embed 2.0 Preview - the WordPress Edition

Thanks for the update, i’ve tried to update but got this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/vhosts/website.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/kimili-flash-embed/kml_flashembed.php on line 59

Hello again – thank you again for the update. I’ve installed it and now I’m receive the following javascript message in IE7 (I tested IE7 and Mozilla):

Line: 6
Char: 1913
Error: ‘J.parentNode’ is null or not an object

If I set the publishmethod to static, everything after the the flash object is no longer displayed on the page. With the publishmethod set to dynamic, the same error is displayed although the entire page is visible. If would like my assistance troubleshooting, just email me – I’d love to help!

I thought it was working, but now I see that in IE (6 and 7) the page stops loading after the embed. It looks fine in Safari and Firefox. The flash embeds beautifully, but the page ends there. Do you have any ideas for me? Thanks very much.

Michael, I don’t want the world to see this site under construction, but I attached the url to my last comment in the Website field. I’ll attach it to this one too.

OK, I’m an idiot. I thought my web site wasn’t showing up, but now I see it’s linked to my name. So much for not wanting the whole world to see the site I’m trying to develop. If you are able to take the link off my name I’d appreciate it a lot.

I believe it’s the conditional comments for IE that cause that error. If I edit them to:

<!—[if !IE]> and <![endif]—> in the appropriate places, instead of:
<!—[if !IE]>—> and <!—[endif]>—> then it seems to work fine. HTH.

So I can’t seem to get KFE 2.0 to work properly… after installing, all I get is the code- or the standard syntax with my path and swf dimensions.

Any ideas? (bear in mind I’ve reinstalled KFE 1.4.3 for the time being if you click over to my site) Thanks a TON!

Chris, I tried your fix, and it did not work for me. Michael, do you have any ideas?

I was wrong, I had a typo in the fix. It does work! Thanks a million!

Me again. Last night I had a friend look at it in IE7 — but this morning I got access to IE6, and in IE6, first it loads up to the flash, then I get a little dialog box: “Press OK to continue loading the content of this page.” If I click OK, the rest loads. Strange?

Looks like the dialog box is a side effect of Multiple IEs, nothing to do with your wonderful plugin.

First of all thanks for your nice plugin: so far I used version 1.43, and it worked perfectly.

When I updated to Worpress 2.7, I noticed the problem on the user writing. So I tried this version of your plugin, but unfortunately it does not work on my website! In my pages I can read only the code, something like [kml_flashembed movie=”/wp-includes/swf/alienattack.swf” width=“872” height=“643” /]; so I put the old version again.

Waiting for the final version, I would get a call: may I get a version without button? It seems to create problems, but I don’t need that: I can very well enter the code manually. So I would know the parties to erase in order to maintain the effects, but without that button in Wordpress interface.

I hope to be clear, English is not my native language (I’m Italian!). Anyway, thanks again!

I updated to 2.0 and my site disappeared. It’s now just a blank page. The swf is in the header. Could that be it? The code is

<div id=“masthead”> [kml_flashembed movie=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/images/banner.swf” height=“126” width=“970” /]
</div>

Michael,

Thanks for you reply to my email, Michael. I tried upgrading to Kimili 2.0. While it fixes the visual HTML window of WP it won’t render my site’s swf file. An example of what I am trying to render is @ http://guitarteacher.com/?p=252&preview=true. I have changed back to 1.4.3 for now

For some reason your plugin works fine with Flash Player 9.x but is having issues when used with the latest Flash Player 10.x. An example can be found here: http://blog.pyamf.org/archives/geoip-example

I see you’re using SWObject 2.1, which is great, but I’m wondering if the upcoming 2.2 will fix this issue somehow (since it’s the first release with Flash Player 10 being the latest and greatest, being offered as the default by Adobe).

I’m seeing the issue with both 1.4.3 and 2.0.. any ideas? Feel free to email me directly if you have questions, cheers.

Hi,

Thank you for the very helpful plugin. I installed the 2.0 version. I only see the code, like this: [kml_flashembed….
I don’t see the flash. Mind you, I placed this tag directly into the template, and, not into a post or page. I deactivated all of my other plugins — the problem is still the same.

I’m going back to 1.4.3, but, I’d be happy to test. Or, if placing these tags in the template is no longer supported, that would be good to know too.

Thanks again for a great plugin.

Michael, me again. When I update the plugin, my home page completely vanishes. When I click on “view page source” it’s just empty. I wish I could show you, but I don’t want my site to be down. I’m using Firefox, by the way.

download the KFE 2.0 working fine over here! thanks a lot!

cheers!

Hi. Thank you for your prompt update to the Kimili Flash plugin.

I am having issues with a new site. I am trying to center the .swf using the styling recommended on this site. I have had no problem on my other sites using your suggested styling and receiving the desired results. For some reason, I cannot get it to work in WP 2.7 (perhaps its a theme issue…I will test this next). Can you think of any reason why adding the following would not work?

div.flashmovie {margin: 1em auto;}

Thanks.

Ciao again Michael! I already left a comment 2 days ago; thanks for your reply, but I can answer just now!

Anyway my problem seems to be the same of Andrew Lahser: with new version of your plugin I only see the code, but not the flash. Consider that I placed it into some pages, not directly into my template.

I really hope you can fix that, because I find your plugin absolutely essential!

I use 1.4.3 version on my blog http://www.ecogiochi.it with edit area bug, but when I update 2.0 version Ive a lot of error on website public pages (ex. swf not visible, sidebar not visible, etc)
I’‘m the only one?

I’m getting the same as you Giochi. 2.0 fixes the editing preview but kills Flash inside posts. I’ve had to roll back to get posts working again..

Michael:

It worked great. Thank you.

Thanks its a good plugin/idea!

Hello,

I just upgraded to Kimili Flash 2.0 and am running WP 2.7 and at the top of my blog it shows the text “KML_FLASHEMBED_PROCESS_SCRIPT_CALLS”.

I have since deactivated it until this can be fixed/addressed.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Hi Michael, like Helen I don’t really want to world to see my URL as well. I believe I send you a detailed email last week with the addresses of sample pages. Did you receive that?

Michael, I am using a custom theme.

Reading the installation instructions, I notice that it was a simple install and no code modification was needed so I am unsure as to why this may be occuring. I am not actually using the KFE code (tags) anywhere on my blog currently as I do not have immediate need for it (to display flash) but like to keep it on hand for when I will need to post flash at some point.

Me again, Michael. Very sorry: I downloaded latest version from your link, but it doesn’t work on my site. I still see only code into the pages.

For the moment I still use version 1.43, but … I’m confident in your work !

Michael,

I just checked and have both <?php wp_head(); ?> in my header.php and <?php wp_footer(); ?> in my footer.php… any other ideas?

Michael,

I just tried deactivating/activating plugins one at a time and so far when I deactivated MaxBlogPress Favicon 2.0.2 the error message went away. 2.0.6 is out so I’m going to upgrade to that now and see if that fixes it. If it doesn’t, would you happen to know if there is a conflict between the two plugins and how to fix it?

FINALLY I GOT IT!!!!

This time I tried to remove all other plugins, and first put yours: it worked. So I called the others one by one: no problems till the end! And Admin interface works perfectly, of course.

Many, many thanks for your advice, and even compliments for your nice work!

Michael I just finished upgrading to MaxBlogPress Favicon 2.0.6 successfully but didn’t fix the “KML_FLASHEMBED_PROCESS_SCRIPT_CALLS” bug I got unfortunately.

I tried again deactivating it and it removed that code from my page so it does seem to be isolated to that plugin. Could you please install that and try to see where the interference is?

Michael,

Yeah, the registration and spam is a pain but you can opt-out of the e-mails later at least…

Thanks for modifying the plugin but that would just be a temporary fix. I might just remove it since the plugin never did all much in the first place. Before I did, I just wanted to make sure there wasn’t a modifcation you could make to Kimili plugin that would allow it to work alongside with the MBP Favicon one?

Michael,

I hope you understand that when I wrote “I might just remove it since the plugin never did all much in the first place.” that I was referring to the other plugin…

In any case, I will try to make contact with the plugin developer and see if he can make some adjustments to it. Is there anything in particular I should point him towards in the code?

Thanks Michael. Really appreciate your work on this. Your a lifesaver!

Worked like a charm! Using WP 2.7 as CMS for client sites. Only other feedback is that this client was confused when they saw markup in the WP Visual Editor (God bless the computer illiterate). I just asked them to leave it alone…Maybe a nice finishing touch for V2.1 – Flash object placeholder in Visual Editor (as when you embed a movie object, ie. YouTube, etc.)? Thanks a million!

Hi Michael,

Thank you again for the help with the plugin. I had to reinstall my site. (My host transferred me to a different server.) Like Tyler (at his comment near HTML anchor c001964), I had to uninstall all of my plugins, then install Kimili, then reinstall the rest of my plugins, then Kimili works just fine. If other plugins were registered first,

Also, although I didn’t test it. It may make a difference depending on whether you use FTP or the upload form to install the plugin. I hope this info helps you.

Whatever happened to proper site interfaces?
I am Extremely frustrated that there is not a DEMO link anywhere on this site. I looked everywhere – and really, I should Not have to look at all. Unless I can see what the plugin is going to look like beforehand, there is No way I am even going to the trouble of trying it. I am sure many people feel the same.
Please fix your site by adding a proper demonstration of the plugin in a highly visible place, preferably right at the top.
Also, your font is, however elegant it may be, difficult to read. Especially on a high-res monitor. Make it bigger, please.

I WANT A DEMO TOO!! OMFG. WTF IS UR PROBLEM?

Just sent info in using your contact page – hopefully you got it! :)

Michael,
Thank you very much for a great plugin. Keep up the fine work.
Dennis

Seriously, this is one of the greatest plugins I’ve installed. Most valuable, least trouble setting up, most return on investment (read FREE), most easy to use, and most useful for a non-tech content team. I just wanted to say that. So for those that think they need a demo, you don’t. Take all of our words for it. It’s stable, and it does what it says it will. All that, and Michael reads and responds to comments, which is more than we can say for many plugin developers. That he even updates this puts him in the top 10% of plugin devs imho. Most projects start with a bang and phase out the minute wp gets a new release candidate.

I don’t know. Seems to me that the time spent writing the comment could have been spent doing the famous 5 second install for testing. Just sayin’.

Anyway. Now that I’ve wasted an equivalent amount of time, I just wanted to thank you Michael, again, for the work. You’ve saved me and my team a tonne of time and we owe you one.

Thanks for correcting my quick and dirty fix earlier. I’ve amended my version accordingly.

I don’t really think it needs a demo either, as the description was clear enough for me to understand what it did. Perhaps just a few screenshots would be a better compromise if people really want to see what it looks like and roughly how it works?

Keep up the good work and Happy Christmas to you. :-)

Thanks alot for this new version of Flash Embed!
I had some troubles with the previous version in combination with Wordpress 2.7 but all of that is history now!

My Flash Player 10 issues had to do with the ‘Content-Disposition’ header, a new security measurement, see Adobe’s site for more on that: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10_security_changes_02.html#head32

Michael,

Letting you know that I de-activated all my WP plugins, re-activated your latest version of Kimili first in line and my issue is resolved. Thanks and Happy New Year!

I’m constantly amazed by people who complain about things that are free.

Thanks very much for KFE.

KFE is not working for me anymore since the upgrade to WP 2.7 / KFE 2.

I do get the proper object tag…

object id=“fm_events-show_752564619” class=“flashmovie” width=“444” height=“320” type=“application/x-shockwave-flash” name=“fm_events-show_752564619” data=“http://xxxxxxxxx.org/slideshows/events-show.swf”/

and it points to the proper data source, which indeed works if you hit its URI.

swfobject script call is in the header, I have proper header and footer tags as mentioned above, and have tried disabling all other plugins except KFE… so what’s up?

I was putting off the upgrade until KFE went into a new version… guess I should have waited a bit. I’ll downgrade back to yesterday’s backup and keep watching here.

The kml_flashembed tag doesn’t seem to work in pages such as header.php when using WP 2.7 & KFE 2.0

It was a new install with default theme and plugins.

That’s what the problem was, thanks. Strange how it worked with 1.4.3

Michael,

I’m new to this and have a problem. I’m using KFE to embed a ShowItWeb flash file into WP. ShowItWeb creates a folder with index.htm, swf, xml and other supporting files. When I do the embed the proper size frame shows up, then I get “failed to load showit.xml” even though the file is there in the remote folder. I’ve included the address for the demo swf I’m working with.

I’ve tried it in a couple different themes with same results. Thanks in advance for any help. And thanks for your work on what looks like a great plugin.

Peter

Michael – Thank you! That fixed it and the answer was in your FAQ. Sorry about that. Do you have a donation link?

hiya- great stuff, but I can’t get it to load
http://uibel.com/panoramas/Fremont_island/panorama2flash.swf
version is 9.0.28

any ideas?
thanks

will this new version work in 2.6? I autoupdated and it blew my admin in 2.6, I’m not using 2.7

Previously, I was very pleased to use the 2.0 preview with WP2.7 as it allowed all my old Flash entries to work without a hassle.

Today, I was attempting to make a new post with Flash but I do not see any example code for what I should be doing. There is no button the TinyMCE visual editor and the button in the HTML editor appears to do nothing at all. So, until that’s working, what code should I be following in this new version? (Yes, I realize that as a workaround I can likely use the old 1.x style code and it should work.)

hi there. i used your contact form, but the email got sent to me. twice. haha. not sure if that was just giving me a copy or that there is something wrong with the code in the form? very strange.

my question was about the kimli flash plug-in for wordpress so i’ll post it here:

i’m building a portfolio site with wordpress 2.7. there is a “videos” section and i’m using a flash player from slideshowpro.net. there are a lot of videos and at times i will have 7 on a single long vertical page. i was able to get 1 video to work on each page but not more than 1.

my questions:

1. is there an easy way to displays flash videos (flv’s) with your plugin? maybe i don’t need to use slideshowpro at all.

2. if not – and if i have to find my own player (such as slideshowpro’s player) then is there something i need to add to the code when i have more than 1 player on a single page?

thanks very much!

thanks for your help michael. : )

After activating the plugin, and attempting to add or edit a page, I get the following:

Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in /home/3442/domains/olivernielsen.dk/html/wp-content/plugins/kimili-flash-embed/kml_flashembed.php on line 652

What’s up with that? ;-)

I might add that I’ve tried deactivating all the other plugins, but to no avail, still the same error.

Now it works! Thank you for the efforts and swift reply;-)

Is there a way to set user roles for the Kimili-Flash-Embed button? I don’t want anyone except the WP Admin to be able to insert Flash. I’m building a WP site for a client which uses Flash, so I need the plugin. But, I want to remove any buttons that may confuse them on the TinyMCE panel. (I’ve already tried TinyMCE Advanced, but it doesn’t provide a way to reove the Kimili button.) Thanks.

I just installed the v2 preview. Working great :) except in the rss feed. It renders out the complete shortcode tag with entered info to the rss feed instead of the flash. Is this normal? As I understand it v1.4.x can output the flash to the rss feed?
Great work with this plugin!

Wow, that was quick!
And I just tried the latest version, and it works excellent with embedding to feeds.
Thank you very very much! :)

Cheers!

Hi Michael,

Remember me? I had an issue with getting Kimili to work with the MaxBlogPress Favicon plugin. Well, after several weeks of back and forth e-mailing with the developer, they managed to patch their plugin in version 2.0.9 which they just released 3 days ago.

I now have both plugins activated and working correctly on my blog.

MaxBlogPress Favicon 2.0.9 can bd downloaded at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maxblogpress-favicon/ and users may need to select wp_head() in the injection method option if they get the error like I did.

Just thought I’d stop by to let you know about this in case anyone else has the same difficulty.

Hi Michael – I just looked in ‘kml_flashembed.php’ and the following code does not exist,
`if (current_user_can(‘edit_posts’) && current_user_can(‘edit_pages’) ) {
if (!current_user_can(‘edit_posts’) && !current_user_can(‘edit_pages’) ) {`

So, I’m not sure where exactly I need to put the code you mentioned. I’m using Version: 2.0 for WP2.7. Thanks.