Php to as3

Hi. So I have a html form and when submit is clicked, my php processes the data. At the moment its simple, just one field displayed to the screen
Hi <?php echo htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']); ?>.
Instead of doing this, I want to send the variable name to a swf file, and load the swf file with the name. I will use flashvars to do this. I have seen examples, and I think this one is used to display the swf onto the webpage, and pass the data to the swf.
<object width="540" height="240" title="sample">
<param name="movie" value="card.swf" />
<param name="flashvars" value="var1=here&var2=are&var3=my&var4=flashvars" />
<embed src="card.swf" flashvars="var1=here&var2=are&var3=my&var4=flashvars" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="540" height="240" ></embed>
I am not sure what it is really doing, and what I should change the value to in order for my name variable to be passed. Any info greatful.
cheers

What is the purpose of that ENTER_FRAME activity you have at the start? That will continuously be calling myFunction, without end. If it is only intended to kick things off, then get rid of it and just use what's in the function itself...
myString=someVar;
loadImage(myString);
Then, increment your counter before you go test it....
counter++;
if(counter<myString.length){
loadImage(myString);
As far as loading into an embedded swf file (swf in an html file), If the two files normally exist in the same folder, normally meaning the files were published that way, then there should be no targeting issues for files that the swf loads. But if the swf is in a different folder than the html file, then its target of images that it loads needs to be adjusted as if it is in the html file's folder.

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Hi dzedward,
I tried the code you posted at
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The markup in the document following the root element must be
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Gidday guys
I have an AIR desktop app that uploads a csv file to the server. Php parses the csv through several different stages (one script containing different parsing processes).
Php sends back a 'print' status to say if the process succeeds or not.
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Hi,
I am new in php coding. I want to get image data from php and also display in flash.
I want to know... how to read and display imagejpeg( $imgData ); from php.
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var urlVar:URLVariable = new URLVariable();
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I need help.
Thanks.

Thanks.
No.No.No. I am not loading image from folder.
step1 : I m sending some image information to php (src , width , height)
step2 : PHP code will take that information
step3 : PHP code will crop that particular image (some calcution for quality)
step4 : PHP code will generate some image data that is /* imagejpeg( $imgData ) */ and return back to flash
step5 : Now the problem occur, how can i take that image data in flash or what form
Possibilities :
? should i get image data as text format and it needs to be encoded (like jpeg encoder)
? i don't know i already try jpegencoder but i did not get anything
var src:String = "pic.jpg";
var width:String = "250";
var height:String = "250";
var urlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest(src);
var urlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var urlVar:URLVariable = new URLVariable();
urlVar.src= src;
urlReq.mehtod = URLRequestMethod.POST;
urlReq.data = urlVar;
urlLoader.load ( urlReq );
urlLoader.addEventListener(Event.Complete, doneProcFnc)
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$wd = $_POST [ ' width' ];
$ht = $_POST [ ' height' ];
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Hello,
So I have made an AIR application where the file communicates with a PHP file in order to display data.
I have WAMP installed on my computer, and the application works when I test locally using WAMP but if I upload the php on an online server(I tried on two of my servers) and run the AIR application it seems that it doesn't communicate with the server so no data are displayed.
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hello
i want to ask : how can i send data from flash to php using as3 and receive data from php using flash .
and another question : how can i upload files using as3 .
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Look into URLLoader documentation for sending/receiving and FileReference for uploading:
http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/net/URLLoader.html
http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/net/FileReference.html

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I think you might be right about permissions/settings on the server for php. Unfortunately I'm not allowed to adjust them.
So I wrote my own script - this time I used file path instead of http address of the XML file. It works fine in my case.
Here it is:
XML file on domain2.com:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gallery>
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    <image imagePath="galleries/gallery_1/images/2.jpg" thumbPath="galleries/gallery_1/thumbs/2.jpg" file_name= "2"> </image>
    <image imagePath="galleries/gallery_1/images/3.jpg" thumbPath="galleries/gallery_1/thumbs/3.jpg" file_name= "3"> </image>
</gallery>
swf on domain1.com:
var imagesXML:XML;
var variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
var varURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest("MyPHPfile.php");
varURL.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
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MyLoader.dataFormat =URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;
MyLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, XMLDone);
MyLoader.load(varURL);
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    var imported_XML:Object = event.target.data.imported_XML;
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php file on domain1.com:
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$imported_XML = $xml_file->asXML();
print "imported_XML=" . $imported_XML;
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Regards
PS: for those who read the above discussion: the first and the second script work but you must test which one is better in your situation. The first script will also work between two domains on different servers. No cross domain policy file needed.

Function Consolidation Help

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I know there has to be an easier way to write this.
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I have the fla file posted in another forum that I asked help
for and someone asked me to post it but never replied back after I
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Here is the link. This will probably answer some of your
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http://www.actionscript.org/forums/attachment.php3?attachmentid=24206&d=1191129053
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matters.
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Include_once problem.

Hello,
On my flash site, I sent vars to a php file call 'controlpanel.php' with will retrieve data from mySql, etc.
It works fine except in the php code the first line is
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So unless the user open up connect.php before controlpanel.php nothing going to be retrieved.
I can have code in as3 to open new browser window for connect.php, then have user go back to site to continue.
But this way sucks it's so unprofessional I don't like it.
Is there a way I can open connect.php in as3 without opening any new window?
I tried this code:
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Technically it works but it also give me error "1069: Property sysytemResult not found on String and there is no default value"
I suppose that mean loader function suppose to pass values to php but there are none in my function.
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the weird thing is this destop doesn't have this error it works fine with some minor cliche, only my laptop has the error.
The minor cliche I refered to is that on second scene where it supposed to show the 'fname' that was input from the previous scene.
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Try type in something new, then on second page you'll see first line showing your First Name follow by 's account, but second line is empty because second line is suppose to grab the First Name field from MySQl
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For eg: A hardware store owner has a website and would like customers to able to easily navigate the store’s inventory in an image gallery displaying images of products for sale.
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A lot of other gallery builders I see out there are very ugly and have very minimal options if you know what I mean.
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One of the real problems, and maybe something that one would want to fudge on, is the tires' deflection. If one does a knockout, then visually there is no reason for the tires to deflect - maybe trim that off, as though the ship was in the air, but with the gears still down.
I also did not go into some of the hydraulic lines - Pebble had my attention...
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I have searched for a solution over many forums and none of the code seems to work. I cannot get AS3 to work with a php script.
I am trying to create a registration form in AS3
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I have the following PHP code (downloaded from net) which builds a list of all the files in a "MyPics" folders:
PS php can build a list of all the files in a folder so you don't have to type them all out like that, plus it makes updating a sinch all you have to do is put a pic in the folder and it will be added to the list.
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I am not able to understand the code to write on FLASH AS3 frame. Please help.
Thanks.

In AS3 you want to use the URLVariables class. Search Google using "AS3 URLVariables tutorial" and you should find what you need to get going. Here's one result from that search...
http://www.metah.ch/blog/2008/01/using-urlvariables/

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