PHP in Flash file(swf)

Anon

Do you know if there is a way to include php code in a flash application?
I want to retrieve data from a MySQL database.
Can flash be dynamic?

Anon

By usng Php Flash can send variable or receive it, but cannot handle an event in itself unfortunately.
You can send a variable via a web-page which will query mysql and send data to flash in return.
good luck.
Hakan Ozcan

Anon

You can generate flash movies by using php.

Check swf_lib or ming,

Anon

i don't want to generate flash files via php.
i want in a flash file to make a mysql query and retrieve data to display.

In flash, there is a programming language like javascript called postscript.

I read that you can retrieve data from mysql with php, parse them into an xml file, send it to the flash file and with postscript you can manage the xml file.

The advantage is the connection is not via the http port and that you can have a continuous connection for as time as you are running the swf file.

I am wondering if there is a way to parse data from mysql to swf directly and not via xml.

1)do you know if it is possible?

2)Do you know how i could display with postcript, an xml file into a swf?

Thanks

nashirak

Flash uses actionscript not postscript... and yes there is a way to retrieve data from a mysql database and put it into flash. For tutorials see

http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Backend/mySQL_an-Jeffrey_-635/

the site also has many other good helps.

I have seen people do stuff with XML but, since I dont use it much myself I will not comment on this part.

You dont really have to convert it into an xml file though for flash to be able to read it. You can just echo out your variables and stuff directly into flash ex:

echo rawurlencode($flashvstufftoecho);

no of course you would have to have flash load this or "activate" this form in the actionscript.

Hope that helps!