Using PHP Scripts in Flash MX

[dsokyno1]

Hello Everyone,
I'm posting a variable called "player" to a destination php script file(test.php). The file then queries a database( mySQl ) and extracts some info and displays it. So the script is working as it is.

I need help in calling this php script via a flash movie and displaying the content extracted from the database in a dynamic text field in the movie. To view the movie, please click on this link:

http://www.cs.bsu.edu/homepages/gddavidj/SEMESTER1.swf

The white rectangular field in the movie is the dynamic text box.

 

[PCSAARON]

I have successfully used loadVariable with a cgi script...

Example:
loadVariables("

http://www.cs.bsu.edu/homepages/gddavidj/cgi-bin/flashfeeder.cgi?"+VarName,

TextBox);

The cgi script essentially reads the file and spews the output of the file into the variable with the loadVariables command. The "TextBox" is the actually movieclip name that the text would go into.

Here is one link for the loadVariable syntax.

http://www.macromedia.com/support/f...pt_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary425.html

Hope this helps...

Aaron

 

[darylclassen]

First, make your php script echo out the variable for use in your flash flick. An example would be if $hit was your php variable, and bit was to be your flash variable. So your line of code would be:

echo "&bit=".$hit."&";

Next use LoadVars to load your variables from the php file.

var c = new LoadVars();
c.onLoad = showValues;
c.load("test.php"
function showValues() {
yourdynamictxtbox.text = c.bit;
}

Hope this helps.

 

[dsokyno1]

darylclassen,
My forms are html and to call my php script this is how I am calling it:
<form action=&quot;events.php&quot; method=&quot;post&quot;>
<table>
<?php
echo &quot;<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=player VALUE='$player'>&quot;;
?>
<tr>
<td>
<input align=&quot;center&quot; size=&quot;50&quot; type=&quot;submit&quot; name=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;OK&quot;>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
To call my flash movie I did the same thing:
So the form action=&quot;SEMESTER.swf&quot; and then the movie calls events.php. Is this the right way to do it? Or do I need everything in flash?
Thanks

 

[jefargrafx]

I've done this with php and flash,

darylclassen is on the rigth track,

you want php to qureey the database and put the info in a php varialbe then load that varialbe in flash.

check out

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/flashmx_php.html

a little hard to understand but works like a charm


fyi

jef

 

[KiwiJor]

Hi Guys,

The main thing with accessing php files is that they must be accessed via a webserver for the php file to be actuated,[converted into html] i.e call should be to

http://somedomain.com/mytestphp.php/

and not just to mytestphp.php.

Regards kiwiJor

Merry Xmas to all.