Passing Variables from PHP to Flash ????

dennismcdougall

What I'm tring to do is pass the variables in my php doc to a flash/swf file.

At the moment flash is loading the php file but not displaying the text, I've use:

loadVariablesNum ("test_detail.php", 0, "GET");

What I don't know how to do is write the PHP code so Flash can understand it.

I'm not a PHP expert I use dreamweaver & Phakt. Can someone demostrate what my variable should look like in the php file.

This is my code for the page:

<?php

require("../../../adodb/adodb.inc.php");
require("../../../Connections/phpnews.php");
?>

<?php
$alphaNewsMMColParam = "1";
if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS["ID"]))
{$alphaNewsMMColParam = $HTTP_GET_VARS["ID"];}
?>

<?php
$alphaNews=$phpnews->Execute("SELECT * FROM alphabeticus WHERE ID = " . ($alphaNewsMMColParam)
. "") or DIE($phpnews->ErrorMsg());
$alphaNews_numRows=0;
$alphaNewstotalRows=$alphaNews->RecordCount();
?>

<?php echo $alphaNews->Fields("storyTitle")?>

<?php echo $alphaNews->Fields("storyAuthor")?>

<?php echo $alphaNews->Fields("storyDate")?>

<?php echo $alphaNews->Fields("storyText")?>

<img src="<?php echo $alphaNews->Fields("storyImage")?>"

<?php
$alphaNews->Close();
?>

nashirak

Ahhh... Flash or anything for that matter cant grab anything unless you output some stuff. But you are right there is a little thing we have to do before we just spout out the variables:

echo rawurlencode($youroutput);
(This just makes sure that your output is decent and there are no funny characters)

I would put your echo into 1 single echo to just all parsed together. Also make sure the values you are echoing back corispond to the variables in Flash:

ex. textarea in flash named "Blah"

echo rawurlencode("Blah='hello there'");

so if we looked in the textarea named blah we would see

hello there

Also... I dont know if you are trying to incorporate pictures into Flash dynamically or what, but you cant do it (unless you know some trick I dont) by just doing a standard image include. I have been told that you need to use some server side program to insert the images (Swish mabye... that doesnt sound right though).
Flash and PHP work beautifully together... so I wish you luck!
Hope this Helps!

greywire

You can pass variables in a flash object in the same way you can pass them into a script, through the URL. Here's an example of a Flash object HTML:

<OBJECT classid="clsid😃27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" WIDTH=320 HEIGHT=200>
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="hello.swf?hello=<?php echo urlencode($hello); ?>">
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF>
<EMBED src="hello.swf?hello=<?php echo urlencode($hello); ?>" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH=320 HEIGHT=200 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>

The important part is the "<EMBED src="hello.swf?hello=....". You can pass in variables here, variable=whatever&another=stuff.... etc.