FLASH: Totally baffled...help please

[Phil Ward]

Hi all, still can't crack the passing of PHP generated variables to my swf

whilst on a server apologies for the re-post new info below.


It's almost as if the string being generated by the PHP3 page is not

considered to be a text file, so is ignored.


Should I be putting some code in the HTM page to properly pass the info to

the swf? other than the OBJECT and EMBED  tags.


Here is the string being created if a direct call is made to the PHP page in

the browser.

transport=By+Rail &dest1=Thamesport+Le+Havre &sailing1=Wednesday

&cutoff1=Saturday &days1=6+days &dest2=Hamburg &sailing2=Sunday

&cutoff2=Thursday &days2=6+days &dest3=Liverpool+Antwerp &sailing3=Sunday

&cutoff3=Wednesday &days3=6+days &destA=Naples+Genoa+Fos &sailingA=Sunday

&cutoffA=Saturday &daysA=6+days &destB=Livorno &sailingB=Sunday

&cutoffB=Friday &daysB=6+days &destC= &sailingC=Sunday &cutoffC= &daysC=&


This is what it looks like when the source is viewed

transport=By+Rail

&dest1=Thamesport+Le+Havre

&sailing1=Wednesday

&cutoff1=Saturday

&days1=6+days

&dest2=Hamburg

&sailing2=Sunday

&cutoff2=Thursday

&days2=6+days

&dest3=Liverpool+Antwerp

&sailing3=Sunday

&cutoff3=Wednesday

&days3=6+days

&destA=Naples+Genoa+Fos

&sailingA=Sunday

&cutoffA=Saturday

&daysA=6+days

&destB=Livorno

&sailingB=Sunday

&cutoffB=Friday

&daysB=6+days

&destC=

&sailingC=Sunday

&cutoffC=

&daysC=&


The files act as they should when viewed locally...the variables are passed

and all is good...but when uploaded to the server, which also holds the

MySQL DB and the PHP3, the variables are not getting through.


Here's the code:

Frame 1

Label loading

Load Variables

("http://212.69.197.118/generator/mapdata.php3?city=Kansas+City",

"/kansas_vars", vars=POST)


There is also empty mc with an instance name of kansas_vars to collect the

loaded PHP3 string.


Frame 2

If (/kansas_vars:cutoff3 ne "")

      Go to and Stop ("done")

End If


Frame 3

Go to and Play ("loading")


Frame 5

mc instance name kansas_primary with buttons which contains an mc called

secondary containing the text variable place holders dest_output etc. action

script attached to the buttons in kansas_primary mc as below...this is just

one button example


On (Roll Over)

      Set Variable: "secondary/:dest_output" = /kansas_vars:dest1

      Set Variable: "secondary/:transport_output" = /kansas_vars:transport

      Set Variable: "secondary/:sailing_output" = /kansas_vars:sailing1

      Set Variable: "secondary/:days_output" = /kansas_vars:days1

      Set Variable: "secondary/:cutoff_output" = /kansas_vars:cutoff1

      Begin Tell Target ("secondary")

            Go to and Play ("display data")

      End Tell Target

End On

On (Roll Out)

      Begin Tell Target ("secondary")

            Go to and Stop (1)

      End Tell Target

End On


That's the structure and it would be repeated for 30 cities on a map.


The swf has a detection script to check that the variables are being loaded

before the call is made on them, which again works locally...see above.


If I create a .txt file with the same variable string as is being produced

by the PHP page it works fine...so is the blockage being caused by the PHP

string not being interpreted as a text string?


I have checked Macromedia technotes and various tutorials and I can't see a

problem with what I am trying to achieve.


Any ideas gratefully received as I am about to go and find a large brick

wall!


TIA


Phil Ward

Crescent Graphics

phil-wcrescent-graphics [dot] co [dot] uk

www.crescent-graphics.co.uk

New Media <> Internet <> Visuals




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