Flash MX and PHP

smudgeh

I'm trying to pass a variable back to Flash MX from a PHP file, news.php. Basic script that selects the latest news article and I want to pass the title of that article to Flash.

I've got a Dynamic Text field in Flash at Level 0 with the variable name "news". In Flash 5 I simply used:

Print "_root.news=blah";

to return and display the data in Flash, but it no longer seems to work in Flash MX 🙁

I've looked for tutorials and there don't appear to be any, and the Flash MX file isn't of much help either. If anybody can help me out it would be greatly appreciated.

Simon

allan

heya,

the following code works for me in Flash 5 and MX:

PHP (getnews.php):
<?php
print "news=news headline here";
?>

Flash:

Dynamic Text box at level 0, with var name set to news
Button with the following code:

on (release) {
loadVariables('getnews.php','_root');
}

you didn't post your Flash ActionScript, so I don't know if this is what you are doing already ?

allan

devarticles

Firstly your php file should print something like this

Var_Name=test data

Then your flash file should look something like this

on (release) {
loadVariablesNum('getnews.php?RND='+random(999), '0');
}