RE: FLASH: Flash and ASP: writing text files from Flash???

[Paul Willoughby]

Thanks Helen, I was hoping I'd get a response from you on this one! I

normally wouldn't ask a question without trying out the theory first, but

I've never written any ASP before so I thought I better ask before I screwed

up my server.

Like I touched on in my first mail, i was hoping to do all the concatenation

to create a 'load variables friendly' string in Flash before I passed the

variable to the ASP, that way I can sort the info client-side with

ActionScript rather than server-side, which will save me having to learn a

load more ASP (it's going to be a top 10 high scores). Any obvious reasons

not to do this?

If this all works out how i'm hoping I'll put together a little tutorial on

it.

Thanks.


Paul :-)


>>Helen Triolo wrote on 06 October 2000 13:55


Paul Willoughby wrote:

> 

> Have we got any ASP experts on the list?


Well, in a "I've used it and it works" way, yes -- not in a "I

understand every aspect of it" way  ;=)  (speaking only for myself, that

is)


> I want to write a text file based on Flash variables using ASP...

> 

> In the tutorial on Flash and ASP integration by Dan Waters (on the same

> site), it says Flash variables you've sent using post are available to an

> ASP program using:

> 

> *snip*

> Request.Form("flash_var_1")

> *snip*

> 

> Does that mean I could write a line of code like this...?

> 

> myFile.WriteLine(Request.Form("flash_var_1"))


Yes, although you might want to make it something like


 myFile.WriteLine "flashvar1=" & Request.Form("flash_var_1")


so that you can read it back into the Flash movie later on (with

LoadVariables) in the format it's looking for.  

> 

> So whaddya think? Am I on the right track? 


Sounds like it to me.  Make sure your asp file has no html in it, only

vbscript (starts with <% and ends with %> and no html tags anywhere),

and I think you should be set. 


Regards,

Helen

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