Re: FLASH: EMERGENCY: NEED HELP WITH DATABASE

[John Croteau]

Hi Marcus and all,


To do a round trip data access to a server is easy and can be

accomplished with a single call to a server side page.


To retrieve the data use Load variables, Flash will retrieve properly

formatted text as variables from the ASP, Perl, Cold Fusion or a text

file. 


An option for getURL, Load Movie and Load Variables is the Variables

send and you have an option of Don't Send, POST or GET. Selecting GET or

POST will send all the variables that are current on the timeline (movie

or movieclip) that the call is made from.


By combining the two actions sent to an active server side page capable

of deciphering the variables and their values send by Flash - the page

can act on the values sent with the URL and then return values via

Flash's Load variable function. If the page is a server side page such

as ASP, Cold Fusion or Perl the page won't be written as a page visible

to the browser unless you want it to (you don't). The page can do any

number of operations on the variables including database access and when

completed can write appropriate results as variable and values to itself

which will be retrieved by the Load Variable call from Flash.


Load Variables ("action.asp", "/", vars=POST)


Since the receiving of data can not be instantaneous and may in fact

take some time you can not assume that data will be available

immediately and should set up an If loop to determine if a test value

has been returned from the page before acting upon the data that is to

be returned.

See Time Delays --> http://www.FlashBible.com/members/


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John Croteau

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