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I'm using a flash animation in my header. I'm wondering if there's a way to keep it from loading each time a new page is opened up. It's gets kind of annoying watching the animation each time you read a different news article for example. I was thinking maybe I could use a jpg file if the user is logged in, but if the person is not logged in, then the flash file would load instead. Anyone know of an easy way to accomplish this? Thanks!

Edit: I found a work around. I'm having the header load the flash logo if the user is anonymous and the jpg logo if it's a registered user. Not the best solution, but one that works! In case anyone is interested, here is the code:

if ($username == "$anonymous") {

echo "<object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/
flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0\" width=\"780\" height=\"85\"> "
."<param name=\"movie\" value=\"themes/Karate/images/myfile.swf\"> "
."<param name=quality value=high> "
."<embed src=\"themes/Karate/images/myfile.swf\" quality=high pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/
index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\"
width=\"780\" height=\"85\"></embed>"
."</object>"
."</td>\n";

} else {
echo "<a href=\"index.php\"><img src=\"themes/Karate/images/logo.gif\" align=\"left\" alt=\""._WELCOMETO." $sitename\" border=\"0\"></a></td>\n";
}