FLASH: Dynamically Filled Form Fields

[John Stanley]

1. Set up your server side page, in my case it is a cfm (cold fusion

template). In it, have it recieve a variable from your flash movie. This

should be done using the loadvariables command on the same level as your

main movie and have it send using post.


2. Have your server-side page do whatever manipulation with that variable as

necessary and have it return a variable in this fashion: 


			&Result=#Firstname#+#LastName# (url-encoded format)


	Where Firstname and Lastname are variables returned from a SQL query

and result is a 

	arbitrary variable name that will also be the name of the textfield

in your flash movie.

	The pound signs are used in ColdFusion to express the value of a

given variable and can be 	ignored if you are not using it.


3. In your flash movie have your page wait to recieve input from the user of

some type (in my case filling out a text field) when this happens and a

button is pressed that has the loadvariables command attached to it it will

take the variable and pass it to whatever template you are using.


4. As you can see below, the variable 'name' is the value recieved from

flash and the variable 'result'. The rest of the code will be gibberish if

you are not using CF. But I am sure that whatever server-side processing you

are using would follow much the same procedures.


5. Using this example allows you to dynamically change the value of a text

area using your server side stuff, without having to reset the values in

flash.


Hope this helps. :-)



<cfparam name="name" default="">


<cfif #len(name)# is not 0>

<cfquery name="GetConsumers" datasource="homepage">


select distinct top 1

			Lastname, FirstName

		from

			Extranetlogin

		where

			Lastname like '%#name#%' and Lastname!='admin'

			 

		

			 

		</cfquery>

<cfif getconsumers.recordcount gt 0>


	<cfoutput query="getconsumers">

		&Result=#Firstname#+#LastName#

	</cfoutput>

<cfelse>

	<cfoutput>

		&Result=None+Found

	</cfoutput>

</cfif>

<cfelse>

	<cfoutput>

		&Result=Enter+a+Name

	</cfoutput>

</cfif>

</body>

</html>




John Stanley

  Programmer

  Internet Visions Group

  Centromine, Inc






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