Reloading XML document

[thumpkidd9]

Hey guys,

I've spent most of the night trying to figure this one, thought I might hop on here to get some suggestions.

My flash file is reading a from an .xml file to pull a music playlist. The xml file will be getting updated when a user add/removes items from their playlist which is coded in PHP. I was looking for a good way for my flash music player to keep updated with the XML playlist file that is generated in php. Currently I have it setup to load the playlist during initiation of the flash file. I can't use more than one frame in the timeline (or at least I think I can't) as it will interrupt the streaming music when looping.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,
¬MP

 

[lucidtech]

Put the code to read the XML into a global function. You will be able to call the function from anywhere in your code at anytime that way...

_global.getXML - function() {
//code to grab data//
}

As far as when it gets pulled, if you are using remoting for your PHP connections, then have the program run the function when Flash gets a result :

AS2.0

function MyRemotingFunction_Result(result) {
_global.getXML();
}

... or, you can setup a function called an interval that will grab the XML data every 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 min, etc.

Check Flash's help files for setInterval() for how to do this.

Hope this helped.