building dynamic flash content based on php/html

Hey guys ,
I was wondering if you can create dynamic FLASH content from a PHP website... that is, creating the Flash content based on the actual PHP backend not the PHP functions... Is that possible? I know FLASH supports PHP but can you import the whole PHP backend in FLASH? or do you have to re-create the PHP backend in FLASH?

Im not sure i understand what you mean..... why would you need to get the file into flash??

I hope that this information doesn't come too late. You've probably already found your answer elsewhere, but I'll answer you anyway, as I am about to create what you're talking about from the ground up.

The short answer is YES. you have to rebuild it. The reason for this is that Flash doesn't accept the current output of HTML to display your information. You will need to re-write the PHP to output in a format that Flash can understand.

Flash basically calls a URL to get variables. You need to define what you want your variables to be called in flash and just export the data in this format:

var1=this is the value of the first variable&var2=the second variable is better than the first&

this should be on one line of the output from the PHP file. As you collect the information within your PHP code, you can keep appending the values to the end of a variable used in a final echo or print command (i.e. $output)

Once you have your data in Flash you can manipulate it all you want in actionscript, or just have dynamic text fields pre-assigned to the variables that you load from your PHP/DB backend.

There are plenty of tutorials around that should describe this in detail. Most decent Flash MX books will also touch on this topic. Flash MX Unleased (Sams I think) goes into depth with this sort of theory.

Happy RE-coding!!!