transforming text file content for flash

[iongion]

let's say i have the following text file :

data.txt

ana=24&activ="who am I
to do such a mistake,
am I good or bad , she said after."

my problem is :

how can i detect new lines in the text file (after "I" and "mistake" are new lines) and transform them in something linear , like:

ana=24&activ="who am I%0Dto do such a mistake,%0Dam I good or bad , she said after."

P.S. : I've tryed to read de file from PHP character by charcater and I couldn detect any new lines( an line of code like if($c == "\n" ) simply doesn't work ).

the algorithm that I used was to detect new lines was :

$filname = './data.txt';
$fp = fopen($filname , 'r+');
$final="";$m="";
while(!feof($fp))
{
$c=fgetc($fp);
if ($c=="\n") print "found new line";
}

[nashirak]

Why use fgetc???

Why not try and just use fgets?
Fgets grabs a line at a time, so you dont even have to figure out the newline.

 while(!feof($fp)) { 
           $buffer = fgets($fp,4096);
           echo rawurlencode($buffer);
           }

I think that is what you are trying to do. You are trying to grab lines from the file and encode them to send to flash? Well if not just take that rawurlencode function out.

Hope this Helps!

[iongion]

geee , thanks a lot!

but when I use rawurlencode it transforms all the special charcters , but I want not to encode = or &

[nashirak]

Why? You have to. If you want to send the character '&' to the script then you need to encode this. If however you just simply want to send & as a delimeter to space out your variables ex:

get.php?variable=blah1&variable2=blah2

then you will have to do that yourself. ie. mabye

   echo "variable1=" . rawurlencode($blah) . ...etc

I have a sneeking suspision that the text file you are pulling from is like:

variable=blah1&varialbe2=blah2
variable= ...etc

well if this is so, you can simply make sure that you have the correct form of the GET headers in the file and skip the rawurlencode, or just have have regular text in there piece together a GET request from a couple of lines, where say a line is:

variable1:value1
variable2:value2

then you could just break apart each line by the : delimeter (see the explode() function) and put a GET header together rawurlencoding the value. Better yet if you had a database this would be even easier. 🙂

If you dont have your stuff setup this way, then I just wasted a whole lot of typing.

Hope this helps!

[iongion]

well it's just the way you imagined :

i have the next text file :

nr=12&mama=who wake's up early
in the mornig
reaches far distances

you can see that the first var contains 12 (nr=12)
and the second contains all the text from who...distances

but if i load this directly into flash it gives me that big
new line spaces between the lines , and i don;t want this to
happen so i must transform the text file content with php into
something like :

nr=12&mama=who wake's up early0x0D in the morning 0x0D reaches far distances

so for flash to inset smaller new lines (I mean normal new line,not new line then empty line then new line)

[nashirak]

I am not quite shure if you can encode any type of newlines or tabs or control charcters for that matter (ie. text formating characters) into the the URL header. I just skimmed the RFC for encoding, and it didnt mention anything. The only thing I could suggest is mabye sending some type of delimeter like a | or something (which it will encode) and then have flash or whatever know that whenever it sees the | character that means to have a new line. Thats my only suggestion, then again, I am tired and fixing to goto bed so I could just be out of brain power. 🙂

Hope this Helps!

[iongion]

i've done that , like in the old fashion text editing :

i've forget php to insert "\n" as string after new line , that when i read it into flash i also formated "\n" that could be encounterd and transformed them into "0x0D" , and that works just fine, thanks a lot!

[daveyboy]

Flash can load and display basic HTML. I shoud think a <BR> or 2 or a <P></P> pair may solve your problems.

I load the following HTML into Flash and it displays just fine:

 
text=<font face='Verdana' size='10pt' color='#000000'><font color="#4f627b" size="12pt"><a href="http://www.welling-neubrandenburg.de" target="whogizafuk"><u><b>Wirtschafts- und Sprachenschule R. Welling GmbH</b></u></a></font>
Ihlenfelder Str. 151
17034 Neubrandenburg<br>
<font color="#4f627b" size="12pt"><a href="http://www.welling-neubrandenburg.de" target="whogizafuk"><u><b>Wirtschafts- und Sprachenschule R. Welling GmbH</b></u></a></font>
Witzlebenstr. 65
17192 Waren<br>
<font color="#4f627b" size="12pt"><a href="http://www.welling-neubrandenburg.de" target="whogizafuk"><u><b>Wirtschafts- und Sprachenschule R. Welling GmbH</b></u></a></font>
Mühlenstr. 131
17213 Malchow<br>
<font color="#4f627b" size="12pt"><a href="http://www.welling-neubrandenburg.de" target="whogizafuk"><u><b>Wirtschafts- und Sprachenschule R. Welling GmbH</b></u></a></font>
Friedrich-Wilhelm-str. 9
17235 Neustrelitz<br>
</font>