Re: FLASH: Tutorial needed: Flash and CGI

[Helen Triolo]

Jason_Schubringaal [dot] org

 wrote:

> 

> Sorry if this has been beaten to death already, but what I am looking for is a

> tutorial that demonstrates how to send information to a CGI using Flash 4 (that

> part is easy) and have Flash react in certain ways depending on what the CGI

> sends back (that is what I need to learn).  Don't need help with Flash *telling*

> the CGI, but more with Flash *listening* to the CGI's response.

> 


Jason,

  I don't think it's been beaten to death at all.  To return something

from a Perl script, according to a previous posting from Redstar, you

need the following:


#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI ':standard';

...

rest of PERL programme

...

print header;

print "Var1=Var1_value...etc...";


and make sure in your Flash that you do the Load Variables to level0

(eg, Load Variables ("xxx.pl", 0, vars=POST)) if the variables you're

working with (Var1 in the above example) are on the main timeline.  As

far as Flash doing something based on what's returned, you could just

use if Var1="somevalue" kind of statements to direct the outcome.


Perhaps you already knew all this--I wasn't sure exactly what you meant

by "Flash *listening* to the CGI's response".


hth,

Helen

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