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Old February 24th, 2003, 01:49 PM
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Interaction between Flash & PHP: Moving objects

Hi all.

I want to make a Flash movie connected with any technology allowing me to access a database. I know ASP, PHP and Coldfusion do, so I'll use PHP to access it because it's the only language my hosting server runs.

I want to access data to show it in textboxes, but the main thing I want to make is to move "things" in Flash movie according to data and logic in PHP scripts.

How can I make movements according to the value of variables obtained by PHP script?



Thanks in advance.

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Old February 25th, 2003, 09:01 AM
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are you asking for a movement function in flash? or how to get the variables into flash? or what to do with them or all?

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What I want to do is to move objects in flash according to data obtained from a database i.e. to move a square x pixels to the right, where x is the data in a field of a register in the database.

I want to drive movements in flash with data.

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okay, well first you should be clear on how to load the variables into flash. In flashMX there is a new LoadVars Object that you can use to keep your variables that you send and/or load... the basic syntax would look something like:

PHP Code:
//actionscript
myVars = new LoadVars();
myVars.onLoad = function(success){
    if(
success){
        
trace("variables loaded successfully");
    } else {
        
trace("something went wrong...");
    }
}
myVars.load("myPHP.php"); 


your php needs to echo the variables in the following format:

&variable=value&variable2=value2...

if you wanted to pass an array of sorts, flash has an explode function, so your print could look like:

&myCoords=12|23|34|46|57|68|79|89

so your flash would now look something like:
PHP Code:
//actionscript
myVars = new LoadVars();
myVars.onLoad = function(success){
    if(
success){
        
_global.xPos this.myCoords.split("|");
        
trace(xPos);
        
trace("variables loaded successfully");
    } else {
        
trace("something went wrong...");
    }
}
myVars.load("myPHP.php"); 


Now the xPos array will hold your values from the PHP. And you can now set the _x position of any object to whatever element of this array you want.

cheers,

bret

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