# Detect flash player 6

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detect-flash-player-6/15259>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 12, 2003, 8:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detect-flash-player-6/15259 "2003-03-12T08:14:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![thorseye](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/thorseye/32/66_2.png) [@thorseye](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/thorseye)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 8:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detect-flash-player-6/15259/1 "2003-03-12T08:14:34Z")

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I’ve got a problem with flash detection. I use this script from [kirupa.com](http://kirupa.com):

```php
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript1.1>
<!--
var MM_contentVersion = 6;
var plugin = (navigator.mimeTypes && navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"]) ? navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"].enabledPlugin : 0;
if ( plugin ) {
		var words = navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"].description.split(" ");
	    for (var i = 0; i < words.length; ++i)
	    {
		if (isNaN(parseInt(words*)))
		continue;
		var MM_PluginVersion = words*; 
	    }
	var MM_FlashCanPlay = MM_PluginVersion >= MM_contentVersion;
}
else if (navigator.userAgent && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")>=0 
   && (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Win") != -1)) {
	document.write('<SCR' + 'IPT LANGUAGE=VBScript\> 
'); //FS hide this from IE4.5 Mac by splitting the tag
	document.write('on error resume next 
');
	document.write('MM_FlashCanPlay = ( IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash." & MM_contentVersion)))
');
	document.write('</SCR' + 'IPT\> 
');
}
if ( MM_FlashCanPlay ) {
	window.location.replace("http://www.mysite.com/flash.htm");
} else{
	window.location.replace("http://www.mysite.com/noflash.htm");
}
//-->

</SCRIPT>

```

It seems like the script always redirects the user to the flashsite, even though the user only has got flash player 5. What’s wrong?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detect-flash-player-6/15259/2 "2003-03-13T12:25:39Z")

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What browser are you using? Do you have this in your \<head\> tags? If you have some more info maybe i can help as I am familiar with PHP

If the above script aint working you could adjust this script (below). With this you can not only reditect if 6 is found (you will have to add redirection yourself) but you can also actually see what version they are using.

```php

function detectingFLASH() { 
  var browser = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase(); 
  flashVersion = 0;     
    // NS3+, Opera3+, IE5+ Mac 
    if ( navigator.plugins != null && navigator.plugins.length > 0 ) { 
        var flashPlugin = navigator.plugins['Shockwave Flash']; 
        if ( typeof flashPlugin == 'object' ) {  
            if ( flashPlugin.description.indexOf('7.') != -1 ) flashVersion = 7; 
            else if ( flashPlugin.description.indexOf('6.') != -1 ) flashVersion = 6; 
            else if ( flashPlugin.description.indexOf('5.') != -1 ) flashVersion = 5; 
            else if ( flashPlugin.description.indexOf('4.') != -1 ) flashVersion = 4; 
            else if ( flashPlugin.description.indexOf('3.') != -1 ) flashVersion = 3; 
        } 
    } // IE4+ Win32 (VBscript) 
    else if ( browser.indexOf("msie") != -1 && parseInt(navigator.appVersion) >= 4 && browser.indexOf("win")!= -1 && browser.indexOf("16bit")== -1 ) { 
      document.write('<scr' + 'ipt language="VBScript"\> 
'); 
        document.write('on error resume next 
'); 
        document.write('DIM obFlash 
'); 
        document.write('SET obFlash = CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.7") 
'); 
        document.write('IF IsObject(obFlash) THEN 
'); 
        document.write('flashVersion = 7 
'); 
        document.write('ELSE SET obFlash = CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.6") END IF 
'); 
        document.write('IF flashVersion < 7 and IsObject(obFlash) THEN 
'); 
        document.write('flashVersion = 6 
'); 
        document.write('ELSE SET obFlash = CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.5") END IF 
'); 
        document.write('IF flashVersion < 6 and IsObject(obFlash) THEN 
'); 
        document.write('flashVersion = 5 
'); 
        document.write('ELSE SET obFlash = CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.4") END IF 
'); 
        document.write('IF flashVersion < 5 and IsObject(obFlash) THEN 
'); 
        document.write('flashVersion = 4 
'); 
        document.write('ELSE SET obFlash = CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.3") END IF 
'); 
        document.write('IF flashVersion < 4 and IsObject(obFlash) THEN 
'); 
        document.write('flashVersion = 3 
'); 
        document.write('END IF'); 
      document.write('</scr' + 'ipt\> 
'); 
  } // no Flash 
  else { 
    flashVersion = -1; 
  } 
return flashVersion; 
}

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detect-flash-player-6/15259/3 "2003-03-14T13:39:07Z")

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Moock’s detector works great:

[Moock’s FPI](http://www.moock.org/webdesign/flash/detection/moockfpi/)

this will definately find flash 6, reall happy with how it works

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detect-flash-player-6/15259/4 "2003-03-14T22:30:47Z")

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i’ll second you subquark–i was just jumping in here to say moockfpi is great–easy to understand, easy to implement, easy to change…moock’s head should be on the mount rushmore of flashers…:beam:  
-mojo