add to favourites

**Chris Jones** · 07-26-2002, 07:47 AM

I'd like to have a flash button to enable users to add my site to their bookmarks/favourites...does anybody know if [or how]there is any actionsript or javascript that i can assign to the button to enable them to do this?

Any help appreciated

Chris

**tublu** · 07-26-2002, 08:27 AM

it would be done by the javascript .

here you are http://www.javascriptsource.com/page...-favorite.html

you can find more of the same in the same site ... search by bookmark

[Edited by tublu on 08-24-2002 at 03:22 PM]

**Chris Jones** · 07-26-2002, 10:35 AM

Thanks for the javascript but how could it be incorporated in to the flash button so that clicking it made the action?

Chris Jones

**TranslucentDesign** · 07-27-2002, 07:25 AM

on (release) {
getURL("javascript:window.external.AddFavorite('yo urPage.html','BookmarkName');");
}

**Chris Jones** · 07-28-2002, 04:59 PM

Brilliant guys, thanks for the help....

Chris

**catbert303** · 07-29-2002, 10:59 AM

A small extra

Since add favourite only works for internet explorer it's a nice touch only to display the add favourite button if the user has IE. You can do this by placing the button (as coded by TranslucentDesign in a movie clip) and making this visible dependant on browser type. you can let flash know this with some javascript like this

Code:

<script language="javascript">
<!--
var userAgent = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
var version = navigator.appVersion;
if (userAgent.indexOf("msie") != -1 && parseInt(version) >= 4) {
  favourite = 1;
} else {
  favourite = 0;
}
document.write('<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" id=main width=550 height=300>');
document.write('<param name=movie value="filename.swf?favourite=' + favourite + '"> <param name=quality value=high> <param name=bgcolor value=#ffffff> <param name="menu" value="false">');
document.write('<embed src="filename.swf?favourite=' + favourite + '" quality=high bgcolor=#ffffff name=main swLiveConnect=true menu=false width=550 height=300 type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed>');
document.write('</object>');
//-->
</script>

now in flash if the variable favourite is 1 you can make the clip containing the button visible, otherwise you could display a message saying something like press Ctrl + D to bookmark

**jim2002** · 08-23-2002, 11:31 AM

Catbert, the AddFavorite works when I go through the swf directly but when going through an html, that bookmark button won't work. Any guesses?

**catbert303** · 08-23-2002, 12:23 PM

What browser do you use? The javascript is designed to prevent the add favourite button showing if you don't use internet explorer 4 or higher, (since it is the only browser that allows add favourite) I used this on my homepage (please don't laugh it was a 10 minute job

) see if the add favourite works on that, if it does you can view the source of the page to see the javascript code and if you like I can send you an fla file which contains the button.

**jim2002** · 08-23-2002, 12:38 PM

Good question - I just tried this in an IE5 browser with no issues. This doesn't seem to be working in IE6 with all the latest patches. Perhaps it was disabled with the latest security patch?

**catbert303** · 08-23-2002, 12:46 PM

Possibly, I don't have IE 6 so I can't test it, could you do me a favour copy and paste this code into notepad (or whatever editor you use) and run it in IE 6 and post screen output back here,

<html>
<head>
<title>browser check</title>
</head>
<body>
<script language="javascript">
var userAgent = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
var version = parseInt(navigator.appVersion);
document.write("user agent string: " + userAgent + "<br />");
document.write("version: " + version);
</script>
<a href="javascript:window.external.AddFavorite('this page.html','bookmrk');">click here to bookmark</a>
</body>
</html>

And see if clicking the link works or not, I'd like to see if it's the javascript that isn't working in IE6 or something in the flash.

**jim2002** · 08-23-2002, 12:51 PM

Thanks for the help!

user agent string: mozilla/4.0 (compatible; msie 6.0; windows nt 5.1; .net clr 1.0.3705)
version: 4 click here to bookmark

Down at the bottom of the IE browser window frame, you can see a message: error on page.

**catbert303** · 08-23-2002, 12:56 PM

Thanks

It's interesting parseInt(navigator.appVersion) appears as 4
Does clicking the link do anything?

**jim2002** · 08-23-2002, 01:11 PM

the only thing I get is - Down at the bottom of the IE browser window frame, you can see a message: error on page.

**catbert303** · 08-23-2002, 01:13 PM

Hmmm, maybe they have removed the add favourite feature, seems quite unlike microsoft to do something security concious

Thanks for your help

**jim2002** · 08-23-2002, 01:19 PM

No, thank you! I appreciate the time you took to look at this. This is getting frustrating. First it only worked in IE, now with the latest patches, it only works in IE5 - theres got to be a way to make a bookmark work in flash!

**catbert303** · 08-23-2002, 01:30 PM

Oh, I just had a quick thought (that type of thing doesn't happen every day

) make sure instead of something like pagename.html you put the full url of the page that you want bookmarking eg

http://www.mysite.com/mypage.html

so in flash try something like

on (release) {
getURL("javascript:window.external.AddFavorite('ht tp://www.mysite.com/mypage.html','my site');");
}

test this online and hopefully it'll work in IE 6

**jim2002** · 08-23-2002, 02:23 PM

Sorry - no luck - I also tried -

//getURL ("javascript:window.external.AddFavorite('http://www.youraddress, 'yoursitenamehere')", "", "GET");
//getURL("javascript:window.external.AddFavorite('ht tp://www.whatever.com/whatever.html" add _level0.URL add "','" add _level0.Title add "')");

The issue appears to be an IE6 thingy.

**jim2002** · 08-24-2002, 02:23 PM

OK - I've done some more research - the issue is that this code works with IE5 when using a URL redirect service but for some reason it won't when using a url redirect service in IE6

I've read some articles on javascript being able to get around javascript redirect issues but I don't know enough to get it to work.

response.encodeRedirectURL(request.getContextPath( ) +
"/RegistrationServlet?cmd=login

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