Re: Passing variables from Flash to PHP

At 10:44 AM 4/2/2004 -0800, drisner@fastmail.fm wrote:

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/

Use SendandLoad as was done here to pass vars to a php login script:

                varSender = new LoadVars();
                varReceiver = new LoadVars();
                varSender.first_name = first_txt.text;
                varSender.last_name = last_txt.text;
                varSender.password = pass_txt.text;
                varSender.action = 'login';
                varSender.sendAndLoad("http://"+ host + "user_logon.php", varReceiver, 'GET');

A copy of ActionScript for Flash MX, The Definitive Guide is really helpful. I don't know if Colin Moock has a MX2004 version out yet. Hope this has been helpful - Miles