understanding flash5 and server side scripts

[webscripter]

Hi everyone,

Is it possible to relay info to and from a serverside perl script with flash 5? Thanks
Tricia
yorkeylady@earthlink.net

 

[billwatson]

in flash5 use

loadVariablesNum ("myfile.php", 0, "POST"

 

[billwatson]

sorry perl yes works in same manner use loadvariablesnum

 

[webscripter]

I'm still learning, (have had flash for about a month now). Anyway, I've learned how to load variables from a txt file with a string like

name=Tricia&occupation=programmer

but you used the ext. php in the loadVarsNum. What's in the php file. I thought you could only load string variables. Does the php or perl file use some code to send info to flash?

Thanks
Tricia
yorkeylady@earthlink.net

 

[billwatson]

yes php was misleading...thats because i use php as my server side script of choice..others get data in and out of flash using asp xml etc. flash must work through some middleware to read/write to a database but it aint fussy which one you use.
the php extension in my example was to access a php file which in turn ran a database query.
if its all new there are many good tutorials around but they are all server script specific.
to get more then text file information in flash 5 use the loadvariablesnum arguement with your server script of choice.

 

[webscripter]

Are the parameters passed back to flash through hidden input fields in html or xml format, or by sending a URL like:

http://mysite.com/flash/movie.html?name=Tricia&occupation=programmer

Wouldn't this style have to reload the swf file? I guess I need an fla file with a server side script for an example. I have php, perl, mysql, and java1.4 to test a script. If someone has a noncompiled script I could look at that would be great. Thanks
Tricia
yorkeylady@earthlink.net

 

[billwatson]

there is a good tutorial on flash5 and php at this address. The problem is simple...build a guestbook....but it is a good introduction to this area

http://www.flash-db.com/GuestBookTut/GuestBookDoc.php