Embed Flash Banner with Tracking Code

efeezy

efeezy

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This may as well be in the newbie section, but I can't seem to figure out how to embed a 300x250 .swf affiliate banner into a site and have it clickable with my tracking url. I've got the .swf file on my server, and I know my tracking URL, but none of the embed codes I've tried will make it clickable. Any idea what I'm doing wrong or if there's a simple code to get this working. Thanks.
 


efeezy said:
This may as well be in the newbie section, but I can't seem to figure out how to embed a 300x250 .swf affiliate banner into a site and have it clickable with my tracking url. I've got the .swf file on my server, and I know my tracking URL, but none of the embed codes I've tried will make it clickable. Any idea what I'm doing wrong or if there's a simple code to get this working. Thanks.
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<a href="%link%"><img src="%image%" /></a>
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That doesn't work? I've never directly embedded a flash banner, so I'm not sure what the issue would be.
 
IceToEskimos said:
That doesn't work? I've never directly embedded a flash banner, so I'm not sure what the issue would be.
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Yeah it doesn't work like a normal hyperlink of an image. It needs an <object> tag. I can get the banner to display fine, but no matter how I configure the tracking url in the code, I can't get it clickable.

This is the code I've been trying.
Code: 
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="[URL]http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/[/URL]
cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="360" height="240">
<param name="movie" value="test.swf?clickTAG=[B]%%CLICK_ESC_URL%%[/B][URL]http://www.destinationURL.com[/URL]" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="test.swf?clickTAG=[B]%%CLICK_ESC_URL%%[/B][URL]http://www.destinationURL.com[/URL]"
quality="high"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
width="360"
height="240"
pluginspage="[url=http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer]Adobe - Install Adobe Flash Player[/url]" />
</object>
 
Try to encode special characters of your URL in query parameters.
Write:
Code: 
http%3a%2f%2fwww.destinationurl.com%2f

%3a = :
%2f = /
 
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