php/flash/db

[Anon]

OK I have a flash file which happily loads variables from a text file - the file would look something like this
myvar=this is my variable contents.

loading this txt file causes no probs, yet if I turn the page into a phpfile whos only apparant output is the same as the above the flash file will not load the variable. I am guessing that php is creating headers? etc that I can not see and that flash can... any ideas?

I could get flash to run a file which creates a text file etc but thats getting slower and slower etc - I am thinking that I have to fool flash into thinking that the php file is actually text , would really appreciate any ideas!

[Anon]

If you open the file by requesting it from the browser, then yes you will get headers.

You could get your flash thing to start reading the data and not actually interpret any lines untill it reads a line like "data starts here",
which could be the first "real" data that the PHP scripts writes after sending the headers.

Or like you suggested yourself, get flash to call a php page through the server, not execute a php script. The php page would generate a file that flash can open. But, what if your flash runs two instances at the same time....