Re: FLASH: PHP and Flash

[Steve Couture]

Thanks for all your Help Rainer, Glen and Fortune,


I really appreciate it...




Steve





> Actually, there is no text file created.  The data is passed straight back

> to the flash file. It's as if you are loading a premade text file, but

> instead it's a CGI script.

>

> You would talk to their script with a "Load Variables" command, which

would

> pass data as a form post, and then basically, if they do their scripting

> right, within a few seconds, your flash file should have a bunch of

> variables contained in the Target that you loaded them into, with the

names

> that they returned.

>

> If you specified your Target to be "/", then all the variables would be

> accessed with "/:" in front

>

> So, name1=joe&age=33&color=blue&name2=john&age=45, loaded into target "/"

> would be like:

>

> SetVariable "/:name1" = "joe"

> SetVariable "/:age" = "33"

> etc...

>

>

> It's like with an HTML post that creates a page on the fly (Like a CGI or

> ASP page).. it doesn't create the page anywhere in particular, it just

sends

> it to your browser - so, using the same method, they do the same thing..

> except instead of creating HTML on the fly, they create an stream of text

> that gets returned to Flash.

>

> This stream of text must be formatted as I indicated earlier..

> variable=value& pairs.  There would probably be no file size limit, just

> remember the download times... if you send back TOO much data, it'll take

a

> while for it to be parsed and loaded.

>

> HTH,

>

> Glen.

>

> ------------------

> Glen Rhodes

> dot com Entertainment Group Inc.

> Tel: (905) 337-8524 x224

> Fax: (905) 337-8630

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>




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