Flash 5 and PHP

Anon

Ok, I am trying to setup a Flash extranet and I would like for clients to be able to register and pick their own username and password. How would I get Flash to write those variables into a txt file using PHP and also check this txt file when the client goes to sign in? Thank you very much in advance.

Anon

Macromedia Generator is a program that allows Flash to interact with Databases, that would be the best.
But I know flash can read from txt files, you can find how to do that in a Flash book or a flash forum. I assume flash would also write but if not you could read in the variables into the flash then make a URL to submit to tag those variables on the end in the actualy flash file. e.g make the flash submit be like checkname.php?user=whatever&password=whatever
then when they submit that it goes to that page and does the checking then reloads the flash file.

I dunno one way to do it, i know flash well but havent did any txt file things with it.
Hope this was a little helpful
Ryan

Anon

Thanks Ryan. Yes, it was helpful, but I want to do it without a database and PHP is the best way to do it. I have an idea of how Flash would write and read to a txt file, but I wanted to see from someone that knows PHP better than I. I am a flash guy, not a PHP guy, but I am trying.

Anon

Well you are saying you want Flash to use php. Well your flash file cannot use php. You can have your flash file call php pages but there is no way to have flash run php script because flash is client side. When php is ran it is run on the server side and is already determined before it gets to the browser. The only way i think you could get this to work is call php files that do stuff then have you flash files embedded in the php file. But whenever you wanted to change or do manipulations you would have to call another php file and then the screen would refresh and then reload the flash file again.

If flash can write to text files ect what do you really need to use php for?
If you could explain to me a little better why you would want to use php for this application and what you exactly want to do with it then i could give you a hand.

Ryan

Anon

I understand that Flash cannot write PHP files. Basically what I am trying to do is: Build an extranet, where clients can fill out a form in Flash and choose their own username and password, Flash would then output these 2 variables to a PHP file that would look at them and insert them into a "fake database"(txt file). Then, when the client goes to login, they type in their username and password, Flash sends that info to the PHP file, the PHP file looks into the txt file and makes sure it is correct, if it is, the Flash file continues on. Seems easy, but I know it isn't. If you could assist me in anyway with some code on how I would make this happen, in either PHP or Actionscript it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.

Anon

http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Utilities/Search_w-enygma-545/index.shtml

ferhan

Hi all,

I just started learning PHP&mySQL. I am using Flash as my front end where I need to generate questions from my mySQL databases. The situation is, I come to a flash page where a list of choices is presented, (for a game for kids), If the user answers correctly, they may proceed, if they do not, they cannot proceed.

How would I use Flash or Flash Action scripts to acquire the questions from the mySQL. I know how to do it for an HTML page, but am a little confused to Flash. Any help would be GREAT!!!

I was thinking, instead of the PHP responding with HTML, it could respond with flash action script. Everytime flash needs the questions, it would call the PHP script?

I don't know flash, so let me know if that is possible?

Ferhan