Passing php varibles to flash

I'd like to pass a variable from php to flash....the first
example below shows what works .....the second example shows what
i'd like to do but can't for some unknown reason. I think example#2
is possible because i've seen similar code all over the internet.
something is just wrong and i can't figure it out. please help me
use a php variable as part of the url string.
example #1
<?php
echo "&valid=1&;
?>
flash output is 1
example#2
<?php
$filename = "hello";
echo "&valid=$filename";
?>
flash output is $filename'';

found the answer its
....echo"&valid=".$filename;....................the movie must
be played from and html page uploading the .swf onto the webserver
and testing it gives the output of $filename;.....but if i hit f12
and create an html page with a refrence to the .swf it works
great.....BTW i'm not saying your php doesn't work i just haven't
used it.

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Thanks daniel

So you have a string "var1, var2, var3, var4" that you want
to get each
element out of?
repeat with i:= 1 to LineCount(EventLastMatched[#args], ",")
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item in the
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Mark
deerowbear wrote:
> Sorry I misunderstood. When I
Trace(EventLastMatched[#args]) in authorware I
> get var1, var2, var3, var4. The function calls an
external dll that pass those
> variables off and a ActionFunction to a dll file.
>
> thanks daniel
>
>
>
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LoadVars-using send to pass a variable from flash to php

For the life of me, I've tried everything:
I've researched LoadVars on Adobe forum, used David Powers'
books, googled 'flash to php', LoadVars, etc. and tried
sendAndLoad, send, and using $_POST, $_GET, $_REQUEST.
$HTTP_POSTVARS but I keep getting this same error. any advice
please?
I have a Unix server running Apache/PHP 4 - LoadVars worked
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My goal with this simple app is to prototype being able to
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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in
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c.testing = "123FOUR";
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/?>

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formData.fname = "Name";
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echo $name;
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i'm trying to load some vars into flash 8. i tried
loadvariables, loadvariablesnum, loadvars, google. can't figure it
out.
2 years ago when using flash mx trying the same thing, the
line:
loadVariablesNum("file",0);
was enough to do the trick.
but in flash 8 can't get it to work ;(
i have the simplest php file, something like this:
<?
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$person = "who";
$sex = "male";
print "town=$town&person=$person&sex=$sex";
?>
the use of variables is a must, so the solution
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doesn't do me any good. actually this works.
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you can also use a FlashVars= parameter in your
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variables once when the movie loads. If this is what you need to
do, use this....
<object ...>
....// other params .....
<param name="FlashVars" value="<?
echo var1name;
?>=<?
echo var1value;
?>&<?
echo var2name;
?>=<?
echo var2value;
?>" >
Though you will have to do that in two places, once in the
object code, and once in the embed code.
The embed code would look more like
<embed ...... FlashVars="<? //php similar to above
?>" ..... />
I have used this successfully to pass in variables when the
flash movie first loads, to pass in stuff like a URL for a link and
other info. There are a lot of different ways to pass values in to
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Php vars to flash

I'm useing the following scripts to pass a variable from php
to a flash combo box....problem is I get undefined in the combo box
when i test my movie using cntrl + enter and if i try to view the
swf on the webserver.
Will somebody please tell me what i'm doing wrong?

Just a couple of notes.
1) don't use a '$' in front of the variables you are sending
to Flash.
"$comboData1" should be "comboData1"
2) Not sure about using multipl "echo" statements. I never
have but that doesn't mean you can't.
3) Try something straightforward first, like:
echo 'comboData1=this is data 1';
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Tim

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I've got a php file, below is the code from it:
<?php
$dir = "photos/";
// Open a known directory, and proceed to read its contents
if (is_dir($dir)) {
if ($dh = opendir($dir)) {
$fileList = "";
while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
If ($fileList == "") {
$fileList = $file;
else
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echo "&newVar=$fileList";
closedir($dh);
?>
it returns a full list of files in a specified directory on
the server.
I need to pass that data into flash, so that it can build an
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i can use:
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"newVar" and it will
display the file list, but I can't seem to get that string
into a workable
variable that i can do things to it.
could someone point me to how to do this, or let me know if
you need more
info on it.
thanks.

I'm able to get the list into flash as it's currently
written, but I can
only get it to display in a text box instead of haveing it in
a format that
i can do things go.
fileListArray = fileList.split(",");
I've been using this code to split the php's return into an
array of the
file names. I just can't seem to get it to work with the
loadvars/loadvariables stuff.
for example, the below code works perfectly:
var fileList:String;
var fileListArray:Array;
fileList = "01.jpg,02.jpg,03.jpg,04.jpg,05.jpg,06.jpg";
fileListArray = fileList.split(",");
when i try to display fileListArray[2] as the above code is
written, it
displays the correct .jpg file name. i just can't seem to
find a way to get
the php's return to work the same way.
"DMennenoh **AdobeCommunityExpert**"
<[email protected]> wrote in
message news:f0amga$ldh$[email protected]..
> You're close, but you don't want to return all the files
in one variable -
> return them all as something like file1 - filen. Then
you can iterate file
> in your onLoad.
>
> Change your PHP like so:
>
> <?PHP
> $dir="photos/";
>
> // Open a known directory, and proceed to read its
contents
> if (is_dir($dir)) {
> if ($dh = opendir($dir)) {
> $ind = 1;
> $fileList = "";
> while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
> if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
> $fileList .= "&file$ind=".$file;
> $ind++;
> }
> }
> echo($fileList);
> closedir($dh);
> }
> }
> ?>
>
>
> Now, in your onLoad function you can do like so:
>
> myLoader.onLoad = function(success){
> var ind = 1;
> while(this['file' + ind]){
> trace(this['file' + ind]);
> ind++;
> }
> }
>
> Of course, you can then stick the files into an array...
>
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Dave -
> Head Developer
>
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>

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Hi,
I am not able to get a variable value from PHP back into
flash after sendAndLoad. I can only get the actual value returned
by php. here is the detail.
Initially from flash
dataOut.sendAndLoad("phptest.php", dataIn, "POST");
and the return from phptest.php
dataIn.onLoad = function() {
msg.text = ' returned from php is '+this.value1 + this.value2
the code in phptest.php
<?php
$a = "&value1=foo&";
$b = "&value2=";
$c = "bar&";
echo $a.$b.$c;
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in response
the msg.text reads like this
returned from php is foo";
It only returns the actual value of value1 and not the passed
value of value2, but one doublequote.
and this is what is displayed in the browser from the
phptest.php .
&value1=foo&&value2=bar&
any sugggestions. ?
Thanks for any help

thanks kglad
but how do you pass a variable value. For example, if you
don't want to send 'bar 'directly as the value for value2, but want
to use the value of a variable say $c which will have a value of
'bar', how do you pass that back to flash. In my example it won't
pass the value of $c as 'bar', unless I actually assign 'bar' to
value2. I need to be able to pass the value of $c rather than send
the assigned value. I looked at the various examples including
those from login examples, but they didn't work. has the same
problem. somehow AS does not seem to accept the values passed via
variable. Any other way to do it?
thanks

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Hi,
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Thanx!

So.. I do need to make a dynamic tekst block? And add to the first frame the action (as3?):
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function showAlertMsg(msg:String):Void {
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if i have 2 pages for example
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