RE: [PHP] Passing variables from Flash to PHP
| From: | motorpsychkill | Date: | Fri, 02 Apr 2004 19:45:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Passing variables from Flash to PHP | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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O'Reilly's "Flash Remoting" discusses php examples fairly well although not
all the source files are available on their website like they claim.
www.flash-remoting.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miles Thompson [mailto:milesthompson@ns.sympatico.ca]
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 11:14 AM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] 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
>
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