Re: Passing variables from Flash to PHP

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Edward Tilley wrote: > Hi - I am an IIS, PHP 4.3 new user running on Win2k server. I need to > pass a variable ( $flash = 1 ) back out to my PHP script and can't find > any examples of this working after 2 days of looking. I can't get a > urldecode to work and I don't want a WDDX because I don't see pertinent > WinOS examples on the .org website. > > Other methods I've tried included running a > "getURL("change_flash_value.php") " script in Flash - the PHP script > didn't execute and the value of $flash didn't change in keeping. It think you will want getURL("change_flash_value.php?flash=1") and then grab the flash variable from the $_REQUEST array. There is a great book called "Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 for Server Geeks" by Nate Weiss (ISBN: 0735713820) that, while it doesn't have PHP examples, does a great job of discussing Flash/server communication. -- David G. Risner Software Engineer -- California State University, Los Angeles http://www.risner.org/david/