RE: FLASH: Question: Loading variable

[Paul Willoughby]

Hi again Rainer,


I'd barely sent that last mail when I thought of a more straight forward

workaround. This time, put your button in an MC, but don't bother adding any

code. Name the text field "text". You'll have to change the number of loops

to the number of buttons you have. You could set this using a variable if

that helps.

Then add code like this to your movie in frame 1 (or wherever you want to

name the buttons):


Load Variables ("wherever you get your variables from")

Set Variable: "counter" = "1"

Loop While (counter <= 3)

      Set Variable: "/instance" & counter & ":text"  = Eval ("profs" &

counter)

	Comment: The above line of code targets the text variable and sets

its value to whatever "profs" & counter is worth

      Set Variable: "counter" = counter + 1

End Loop


If you can't get this to work, mail me off list and i'll send you a little

demo (which won't contain any PHP!)


hth


Paul


-----Original Message-----

From: Paul Willoughby 

Sent: 06 September 2000 16:13

To:

'flasherchinwag [dot] com

'

Subject: RE: FLASH: Question: Loading variable



Hi Rainer,


I don't know anything about PHP, but I do know a bit about loading text into

Flash so maybe I can help.


>Is this ok, or should there be a , or ; or & or + instead of the 

>blanks? or shoud it be like

>profs1=John

>profs2=Marc

>profs3=Sam


The variables for loading should be connected with an ampersand (&) so it

look like:

profs1=John&profs2=Marc&profs3=Sam


>Now I want to read the variable in the textfield of the button, but the 

>problem is that I want to duplicate the button, and textfield should 

>be named something like profs&i, in this case the button should be 

>duplicated three times and I want that textfield in first button gets 

>John, textfield in second buttons gets Marc ...?


Hmmm...not easy. You can't dynamically rename a textfield as far as I know,

but there is quite a good workaround. Make sure your button is embedded in a

movie clip. Then within the button movie clip, add a new layer and in key

frame 1 add the code:


SetVariable: whateveryourtextfieldiscalled = GetProperty("",_name)


This puts the text of the instances name into the textfield. The reason for

doing this is because you can dynamically rename instances. So, if you have

three instances on a timeline without names, Flash will call them instance1,

instance2, instance3.

You can then add code on the main timeline that says something like:


Load Variables ("whatever your file is called")

Set Property ("instance1", Name) = profs1

Set Property ("instance2", Name) = profs2

Set Property ("instance3", Name) = profs3


This is an example to show the mechanics of it, but it would speed this code

up if you used a naming loop like this:


Set Variable: "counter" = "1"

Loop While (counter <= 3)

      Set Property ("instance" & counter, Name) = "profs" & counter

      Set Variable: "counter" = counter + 1

End Loop


The textfields in your instances will then automatically take on the value

of profs1, profs2 and profs3.

I hope that helps, but like I said I don't know too much about PHP so my

solutiom might not be appropriate. As an aside, I'm keen to learn about PHP

and how it can be used to integrate Flash with databases. Is there any

sites/books you recommend for tutorials? I'd be grateful for any help in

this area.


Paul


-----Original Message-----

From: Rainer Egle [

rainer [dot] egleFH-Reutlingen [dot] DE (mailto:rainer [dot] egleFH-Reutlingen [dot] DE)

]

Sent: 06 September 2000 15:15

To:

flasherchinwag [dot] com

Subject: FLASH: Question: Loading variable



Hi all,


I have a question concerning loading variables in flash. I want to 

load an "array" in Flash. Have a table in a database like:


ID   Name

1	John

2	Marc

3	Sam


Now I want to use a button in Flash (consists of a graphic and a 

textfield).


I get the amount of rows in the database table a variable:


php-code:


<?php

$verbindung = @mysql_connect("localhost","","");

$abfrage = "SELECT Name from Profs1 order by 1";

$erg = mysql_db_query("Profs",$abfrage,$verbindung);

$anzahl = mysql_affected_rows($verbindung);

echo "anzprof=$anzahl";

mysql_close($verbindung);

?>


Now is my question should the php-file for the array should be?


If have this one:


<?php

$verbindung = @mysql_connect("localhost","","");

$abfrage = "SELECT Name from Profs1 order by 1";

$erg = mysql_db_query("Profs",$abfrage,$verbindung);

$i=1;

while (list($Name) = mysql_fetch_row($erg))

{

	echo "profs$i=$Name ";

	$i=$i+1;

}

mysql_close($verbindung);

?>


which gives me the result


profs1=John profs2=Marc profs3=Sam


Is this ok, or should there be a , or ; or & or + instead of the 

blanks? or shoud it be like

profs1=John

profs2=Marc

profs3=Sam


Now I want to read the variable in the textfield of the button, but the 

problem is that I want to duplicate the button, and textfield should 

be named something like profs&i, in this case the button should be 

duplicated three times and I want that textfield in first button gets 

John, textfield in second buttons gets Marc ...?


Is this possible in any way? Tips?


Any help is appreciated, but the most important thing to know it 

this problem can be solved or not?


Sorry for my bad explaining, English is not my strength.


Rainer



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