Loading an SWF via HTML Button (AJAX)

programming flash
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Hi there,

I have a html site with three div tags, I want to be able to load an SWF into one of the div’s via a html button.

I have looked into using AJAX and have this solution:
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>

<html xmlns=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=“content-type” content=“text/html; charset=utf-8” />
<title>Kristian Brace : Portfolio</title>
<meta name=“keywords” content="poplar farm, holiday cottages, last minuet deals, cheap holidays, somerset, weston super mare, holiday, cottages, " />
<meta name=“description” content=“Poplar Farm Holiday Cottages offer first class holidays in Somerset at competitive rates” />
<link href=“default.css” rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” />

<script type=“text/javascript”>

/***********************************************

  • Dynamic Ajax Content- © Dynamic Drive DHTML code library (www.dynamicdrive.com)
  • This notice MUST stay intact for legal use
  • Visit Dynamic Drive at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for full source code
    ***********************************************/

var bustcachevar=1 //bust potential caching of external pages after initial request? (1=yes, 0=no)
var loadedobjects=""
var rootdomain=“http://”+window.location.hostname
var bustcacheparameter=""

function ajaxpage(url, containerid){
var page_request = false
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) // if Mozilla, Safari etc
page_request = new XMLHttpRequest()
else if (window.ActiveXObject){ // if IE
try {
page_request = new ActiveXObject(“Msxml2.XMLHTTP”)
}
catch (e){
try{
page_request = new ActiveXObject(“Microsoft.XMLHTTP”)
}
catch (e){}
}
}
else
return false
page_request.onreadystatechange=function(){
loadpage(page_request, containerid)
}
if (bustcachevar) //if bust caching of external page
bustcacheparameter=(url.indexOf("?")!=-1)? “&”+new Date().getTime() : “?”+new Date().getTime()
page_request.open(‘GET’, url+bustcacheparameter, true)
page_request.send(null)
}

function loadpage(page_request, containerid){
if (page_request.readyState == 4 && (page_request.status==200 || window.location.href.indexOf(“http”)==-1))
document.getElementById(containerid).innerHTML=page_request.responseText
}

function loadobjs(){
if (!document.getElementById)
return
for (i=0; i<arguments.length; i++){
var file=arguments*
var fileref=""
if (loadedobjects.indexOf(file)==-1){ //Check to see if this object has not already been added to page before proceeding
if (file.indexOf(".js")!=-1){ //If object is a js file
fileref=document.createElement(‘script’)
fileref.setAttribute(“type”,“text/javascript”);
fileref.setAttribute(“src”, file);
}
else if (file.indexOf(".css")!=-1){ //If object is a css file
fileref=document.createElement(“link”)
fileref.setAttribute(“rel”, “stylesheet”);
fileref.setAttribute(“type”, “text/css”);
fileref.setAttribute(“href”, file);
}
}
if (fileref!=""){
document.getElementsByTagName(“head”).item(0).appendChild(fileref)
loadedobjects+=file+" " //Remember this object as being already added to page
}
}
}

</script>

</head>
<body>

&lt;div id="menu"&gt;
    
    &lt;h2&gt;Kristian Brace&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
    
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="about.html"&gt;About&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Projects&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="links.html"&gt;Links&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="contact.html"&gt;Contact&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;


&lt;/ul&gt;

</div>

&lt;div id="header"&gt;
    &lt;h2&gt;Projects&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;a href="javascript:ajaxpage('mg_mediacom.swf', 'flash');"&gt;MediaCom 2&lt;/a&gt;


    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;MediaCom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="cottages.html"&gt;Short & Suite&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="cottages.html"&gt;British Red Cross&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="cottages.html"&gt;poplar Farm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="cottages.html"&gt;VTKTM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="guestbook.html"&gt;aniMate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="contact.html"&gt;Hansel & Gretel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="cottages.html"&gt;Foursight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="cottages.html"&gt;Timelapse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="cottages.html"&gt;3D Showreel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="cottages.html"&gt;The Iron Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;


&lt;/ul&gt;

</div>

&lt;div id="content"&gt;

    &lt;h2&gt;Mediacom&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;
    &lt;a href="javascript:ajaxpage('mg_mediacom.swf', 'flash');"&gt;MediaCom 3&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;div id="flash"&gt;


&lt;/div&gt;
    
    
    &lt;p&gt;MediaCom&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p&gt;This is a description of the flash movie playing above.&lt;/p&gt;

</div>

<div id=“footer”>

&lt;p id="legal"&gt;Copyright &copy; 2009 . All Rights Reserved.&lt;/p&gt;

</div>

</body>
</html>
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When the html button is clicked it loads but displays a mass of nonsense code.

does anybody have any ideas or experience with loading swf from html

Thanks