Load large swf and basic Q

[Motionographer]

Hi,

 

  First time visitor and very new to php. I have a very large swf file on a HTML page that needs to load instantly. How can this be done?

Am I correct that php displays page content instantly because it's loaded on the server?

 

Thanks ahead of time,

 

Eric

[ToonMariner]

php has nothing to do with loading the swf - php simple generates the markup that tells the browser to load it.

 

If the swf is large then it will take a little time to load - in which case I would have a look at using a progress bar in your flash.  you could pre-load the file using javascript on another page of your site that the users would normally visit before hitting this page but otherwise you are stuck with the bandwidth available to the visitor.