free package
Fully functional, no restrictions
Easy to install on any website
XML customizable
GPL Licensed
Watermarked :
paid package
NO watermark:
plus a Flash component (AS3) which can be used in Flash projects
Features
- autoScroll functionality
- supports external RSS feeds and custom created
- customizable roll over/out effects
- the text is HTML/CSS formatted
- many more customizable properties on the Live Demo
Installation instructions for:
How to install this News Ticker on your website
Step 1. SWF embedding
Download the news-ticker.zip package and put all the files from this package into the same folder with the HTML file in which you want the component to be embedded.
You should know first of all that the SWF file is the one that actually represents the component, while the other files (settings.xml, news.xml, style.css) are the assets that the SWF file uses.
A short explanation on how SWFs and XMLs interacts you will find here.
Open your HTML file with a text editor and insert somewhere between the <head> </head> tags the following lines:
<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var flashvars = {};
var params = {};
params.scale = "noscale";
params.salign = "tl";
params.wmode = "transparent";
var attributes = {};
swfobject.embedSWF("newsTicker.swf", "NewsTickerDiv", "600", "300", "9.0.0", false, flashvars, params, attributes);
</script>
For a fast and easy publishing, the best thing to do is to have the SWF file, the HTML file which embeds the SWF, the swfobject.js file, and the assets that the SWF uses (XMLs) in the same folder.
If that is not possible, please read this detailed article on how to specify the paths correctly.
The above code itself isn’t enough to publish the SWF file on your webpage. You just need to add a div somewhere in the body section of your page (between the <body> </body> tags of your HTML file).
So, in a specific location of your HTML body section insert this div:
<div id="NewsTickerDiv"></div>
Step 2. Customization
You’ll be able to define a maximum size of 1680 in width and 1050 in height in the 3rd and 4th arguments of the swfobject.embedSWF() function above. Usually the same values as for width and height on the live demo (which you will set below).
Now you will have to define the properties of your News Ticker.
You can do that by editing the settings.xml file, or much simpler, set your values on the Live Demo above and press Generate button, then hit COPY and paste over the existing content of settings.xml file.
If you intend to have multiple News Tickers on the same page, for the same newsTicker.swf file you’ll need to have different settings. Please read here how publish a component twice on the same page.
Now all you have to do is to create your own RSSs or specify to load an external one.
newsTicker.swf has about 96 KB.
If you’ll want to use the News Ticker in Flash projects (FLA files), the News Ticker is available as a Flash component (MXP file) in the paid package
Instructions on how to use the News Ticker component in Flash you will find here.
To be able to remove the FlashXML.net label from the top-left corner you will need to purchase the paid package
Make sure your Wordpress version is greater than 2.8 and your hosting provider is using PHP5.
1. There are two files to download:
a. WordPress Plugin that you have to install and activate
b. Free package
2. Create a new folder inside your wp-content folder called flashxml, inside this folder create a new one called news-ticker-fx and copy the content of the free package there
3. If you copied the free package to a location different than the one above, go to News Ticker FX from the Settings tab from your WordPress Dashboard and update the path accordingly
4. Add [news-ticker-fx][/news-ticker-fx] where you want the Flash to show up in your post/page.
5. If you want to make the News Ticker FX part of your theme, edit the template files and add <?php newstickerfx_echo_embed_code(); ?> where you want it to show up
6. Customize your News Ticker FX using the Live Demo from the top of this page. Generate the settings.xml text and use it to overwrite wp-content/flashxml/news-ticker-fx/settings.xml
Additional settings file
To embed the News Ticker FX more than once, you will need another settings file. Let's assume your new file is called settings2.xml. Add [news-ticker-fx settings="settings2.xml"][/news-ticker-fx] where you want the Flash to show up in your post/page. If you made the Flash part of your theme, add the file name as the first argument of the newstickerfx_echo_embed_code() function call (for example <?php newstickerfx_echo_embed_code("settings2.xml"); ?>).
No Flash support text
To support visitors without Adobe Flash Player, you can provide alternative content by adding the text between [news-ticker-fx] and [/news-ticker-fx]. If you made the Flash part of your theme, add the text as the second argument of the newstickerfx_echo_embed_code() function call (for example <?php newstickerfx_echo_embed_code("","Alternative content"); ?>).
If you have PHP4
To make it work with PHP4, add [news-ticker-fx width="600" height="300"][/news-ticker-fx] where you want the Flash to show up in your post/page. If you made the Flash part of your theme, add the width and height as the third and fourth argument of the newstickerfx_echo_embed_code() function call. Don't forget to provide your own width and height values, since 600 and 300 are just examples.
Getting rid of the FlashXML.net label
To remove the FlashXML.net label from the top-left corner you'll need to buy the paid package. Once you'll do that, simply use the SWF file from the paid package to overwrite the SWF file from the wp-content/flashxml/news-ticker-fx/ folder.
Make sure your Joomla version is 1.5 and your hosting provider is using PHP5.
Joomla Module Instructions:
1. There are two files to download (both under GPL License):
a. Joomla Module that you have to install and enable
b. Free package
2. Create a new folder inside your Joomla folder called flashxml, inside this folder create a new one called newstickerfx and copy the content of the free package there
3. If you copied the free package to a location different than the one above, update the Path from module's parameters accordingly
4. Customize your News Ticker FX using the Live Demo from the top of this page. Generate the settings.xml text and use it to overwrite flashxml/newstickerfx/settings.xml
Joomla Plugin Instructions:
1. There are two files to download (both under GPL License):
a. Joomla Plugin that you have to install and enable
b. Free package
2. Create a new folder inside your Joomla folder called flashxml, inside this folder create a new one called newstickerfx and copy the content of the free package there
3. If you copied the free package to a location different from the one above, update the Path from module's parameters accordingly
4. Add {newstickerfx}{/newstickerfx} where you want the Flash to show up in your article
5. Customize your News Ticker FX using the Live Demo from the top of this page. Generate the settings.xml text and use it to overwrite flashxml/newstickerfx/settings.xml
6. The default name for the settings file is settings.xml, but if you want to use another file (for example settings2.xml), specify the name like this: {newstickerfx settings="settings2.xml"}{/newstickerfx} where you want the component to show up in your article
7. In some cases the width and height will not be read from the settings.xml file but you can specify them like this: {newstickerfx width="400" height="300"}{/newstickerfx}. Don't forget to provide your own width and height values, since 400 and 300 are just examples.
Getting rid of the FlashXML.net label
To remove the FlashXML.net label from the top-left corner you'll need to buy the paid package.
Once you will do that, simply use the SWF file from the paid package to overwrite the SWF file from the flashxml/newstickerfx/ folder.
Below you will see instructions on how to install and use the News Ticker Component in Flash (available for Flash CS3, CS4, and Flash Player 9 or later).
For basic instructions on how to integrate the News Ticker’s SWF file into HTML/PHP, click here.
You can watch an installation video tutorial of a very similar component in Flash (3D Carousel Menu FX) by clicking here.
In this video you will see:
- how to create an instance of the component on the stage: from the Components panel (Ctrl+F7) drag & drop the component on the stage
- how to give a name to that instance for further use in ActionScript: click on the component instance on the stage and from the Properties panel (Ctrl+F3) enter a name in the text input
- how to access the properties of the component (read or modify) during different moments of your Flash application
Any property of the Component could be accessed that way. The names of the properties are identical with the ones from the settings.xml file.
The properties of the component can be of any of the three types: Number, String, Boolean. We assume it’s intuitive of which type each property is.
Warning! Setting the parameters of the component in the Component Inspector window (Shift+F7) and in the same time having a settings.xml file populated with different values for each property, the properties from the settings.xml file will have priority (meaning that a parameter set in the Component Inspector will be ignored if that parameter is also defined in the XML file)
For now, this component doesn't dispatch events, but stay tuned for an update.
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arivazhagan
Posted 6 Days AgoHi, I use this link
http://feeds.feedburner.com/livemint/bAxH.xml
in newsfeed attribute,but it’s not working,news ticker doesn’t show the news.
can u clarify this,any solution for this.
thanks
Hello,
Please send us a link to your website and we will look into the problem.
arivazhagan
Posted 6 Days Agohi,
http://feeds.feedburner.com/livemint/bAxH.xml
will it work
thanks
Hi,
It will work if you add the url to the newsFeed attribute from your settings.xml file. You can try the free package to test it yourself.
arivazhagan
Posted 6 Days Agoyou talked about crossdomain.xml,can u explain elaborately,is there any alternate solution for that.
Flash usually, when it loads a file that is hosted on a different server than the one where the SWF file resides, it looks for a crossdomain.xml file that is the root folder.
As you can see http://feeds.feedburner.com/crossdomain.xml has a crossdomain.xml.
That crossdomain.xml file allows access from any domain.
So this is the source of the problem.
If there will be placed a crossdomain.xml file in the root folder of a websites, it will work.
This is the only solution.
Anne
Posted 20 Days AgoThis works fine when I test my movie in Flash, but when I try to upload it to the server or even test it locally in a browser, it doesn’t show up.
Any thoughts?
Hi,
Could you give me a link to your website?
I’ll check it out.
Rafi
Posted 21 Days AgoIn the directions for WordPress installation, it says,
1. There are two files to download: a. WordPress Plugin that you have to install and activate
How/where do I install this and how do I activate it? It’s the missing link for me that’s preventing this from working. THanks.
Hello,
Download the plugin and unzip it. Take the newstickerfx folder that results and put in your wordpress/wp-content/plugins directory.
Then, go to your wordpress dashboard, plugins section and click the activate button for the News Ticker FX plugin.
Make sure to follow the rest of the tutorial (putting the free archive where it belongs etc).
CHRIS
Posted 22 Days AgoHi
Your suggestion how to modify the news.xml file for personalised messages did the trick! Thank you. How can I now implement the
[news-ticker-fx][/news-ticker-fx]
shortcode into a Wordpess Text Widget? (for display below my header)
I did try but just got the shortcode as text not as a news.xml message feed (although it works just fine in my pages and posts)
Rgds
Chris
Hello,
Unfortunately, this feature is not supported. However, you could alter your theme a little bit and use the second way of embedding your text widget, directly into your theme (via the echo function that you can find in the wordpress installation guide).
Tiffoun
Posted 22 Days AgoHi,
I have a little question : i want to insert a link in one of the messages scrolling. i noticed that when you put mouse over a msg, you can click but it takes you to flashxml.net… I love you (and even paid 2 licences ) but i would prefer that when they put mouse over, they just can click the link i inserted in the message by a <a> tag. I am not sure you will understand my english. if yes, can you help ?
I have cancelled the url to flashxml, put a link in message but nothing happen when clicking.
Hi,
Sorry to announce you but this feature is not implemented.
SoLiCe
Posted 22 Days AgoHi, i would like to put a rss feed, but when i put <newsFeed value=“http://fr.pokernews.com/news/rss.xml”/>
I had nothing, do you had a sloution ?
Thanks a lot !
Flash (starting with flash player 9) usually, when it loads a file that is hosted on a different server than the one where the SWF file resides, it looks for a crossdomain.xml file that is the root folder.
As you can see http://fr.pokernews.com/ has a crossdomain.xml http://fr.pokernews.com/crossdomain.xml that’s why it loads the news from there.
While from the other websites don’t.
So this is the source of the problem.
If there will be placed a crossdomain.xml file in the root folder of this website, it will work.
chris
Posted 24 Days AgoI have got it working under wordpress easily-took 5mins. and have generated a new xml replacing the old settings was also easy. But how do I change the scrolling words to a “bespoke comany announcement” of my choice? I bet im missing the obvious! Great job by the way
Rgds
Chris
Hello,
Open the settings.xml file and edit the value of the newsfeed attribute. For example, <newsFeed value=“http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition_world.rss”/> .
cyp
Posted 27 Days AgoThank you.
Also, including more than one source feed it will be a nice feature. Is there any chance that you could soon implement this option?
Hi,
There are external application that merge feeds into a single one. You could use one of those.