I currently have a system that allows the upload of Flash files to be embedded in dynamic webpages.

Now comes the hard part. I need to extract enough info out of the files to be able to generate the appropriate embedded object in the HTML.

<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase=
+"http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0
+" ID=test WIDTH=270 HEIGHT=250>
         <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="/flash/welcome3.swf">
        <PARAM NAME=menu VALUE=false>
        <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
        <PARAM NAME=salign VALUE=RB>
        <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#cccccc>
        <EMBED src="/flash/welcome3.swf" menu=false quality=high salig
+n=RB align="center" bgcolor=#cccccc  WIDTH=270 HEIGHT=250 TYPE="appli
+cation/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shoc
+kwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></EMBED>
    </OBJECT>

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The important parts are the width and height but I would also like to be able to verify the version used (to stop uploading of Flash 6 files) and whether the file is actually a valid Flash file.

I have looked at CPAN with no luck. Perl::Flash and Flash::SWF handle flash but these seem to be based on version 3 or 4 and have not been updated for ages.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks in advance
UnderMine

In reply to Extracting info from SWF Files by UnderMine

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