text file

[disfasia]

i am making a site where i need to have the pages changeable to a user who wants to update them from time to time and who does not have or know how to use flash. how would i go about making a file that others can update?

also, this has nothing to do with flash, but how might someone be able to see the number of visitors to their site without having a counter?

thanks for the help!

disfasia

 

[disfasia]

i have read more on this site about this subject, and it seems i need to write the page in php...but i do not know how to do this either. if someone could kindly let me know where to go to find this information or the code i would greatly appreciate it!

thanks again,
disfasia

 

[coldfused]

php forum?

carlsatterwhite@endangeredgraphics.com

 

[disfasia]

I don't think this is purely php...what i need to know is how to put text into my flash file embedding it in a movie. I was told a while back that this is possible so that I do not have to update my page all the time, but can just rewrite or add text to the text file.

disfasia

 

[PetitPal]

If you're going to start into stuff like php, do you need Flash at all; are you just using it as an engine for creating dynamic content? If so, you should try asp or something like that.

Having said that, you can load stuff dyanmicaly into Flash by allowing users to edit a text file and then loading the contents of that into a dynamic text box. If you tick the 'html' flag then this allows the users to format the info. using standard html flags, etc.

You have to use the 'loadVariablesNum (&quot;<file name>&quot;, <movie level>);' command to load the variables in the file into your movie. All you need to do then is simply have a plain text file with a '&my_text=<users text>&', and then call your dynamic variable 'my_text'.



PetitPal.

 

[disfasia]

thanks petit. do you know of a tutorial that will show me step by step this process? somebody who does not know flash asked me to make a site for him but he wants to be able to change the information in a few of the pages. I figured this was the easiest way to make the site for him since he can just edit the text file. do you have other suggestions regarding this?

thanks again,

disfasia

 

[Kiehlster]

Go here, there's a step by step, hands on tutorial on exactly that. And there's a bunch of other tutorials too.

http://www.gizmospage.de/

Steve Kiehl
webmaster@nanovox.com

http://www.nanovox.com/