Parse file name

[bushmobile]

i'm embedding some flash in a webpage - but it's a template based system and the different swf files will need to be shown at different sizes on different pages.

The file names will be like: monkey_dance_150_100.swf

so I wrote the following javascript as a test:

	function getDimension(filename, dimension) {
		var file_array = filename.split("_");
		if (dimension = 'W') {
			alert(file_array[file_array.length - 2]);
		} else if (dimension = 'H') {
			alert(file_array[file_array.length - 1]);		
		}
	}

and attempted to use it such ({section.image} is just the file name - it gets parsed by the template language first):

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" width="javascript:getDimension('{section.image}', 'W')" height="javascript:getDimension('{section.image}', 'H')">
	<param name=movie value="{section.image}">
	<param name=quality value=high>
	<param name=wmode value=transparent>
	<embed src="{section.image}" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="javascript:getDimension('{section.image}', 'W')" height="javascript:getDimension('{section.image}', 'H')">
	</embed>
</object>

that didn't do anything. i just want it to show the parsed values at the moment (i know it wasn't returning anything)

presumably that didn't work because there isn't an event triggering the code to run - so how should i go about this?

[Merri]

Generate the whole element via JavaScript. You can do this in onload event or with inline script.

[bushmobile]

i ended up doing it inline like so:

<script type="text/javascript">
    //{section.image} is equivalent to monkey_dance_100_100_.swf
    var filename = '{section.image}';
    var file_array = filename.split('_');
    document.write('<td width="' + file_array[file_array.length - 3] + '" valign="top"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" width="' + file_array[file_array.length - 3] + '" height="' + file_array[file_array.length - 2] + '"><param name=movie value="{section.image}"><param name=quality value=high><param name=wmode value=transparent><embed src="{section.image}" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="' + file_array[file_array.length - 3] + '" height="' + file_array[file_array.length - 2] + '" wmode="transparent"></embed></object></td>');
</script>

is that what you had in mind?

[Merri]

Well, I thought you could've added it using DOM methods. Atleast you shouldn't use document.write - it isn't very elegant way of adding data into the page. innerHTML isn't much better, it doesn't even work in Firefox 1.0 in standards compliant mode (but does work in 1.5).

Here is a guide on how to use DOM instead of innerHTML