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Flash / PHP Interaction
Hi Guys,

A friend of mine has produced a flash movie and he wanted me to write some basic shopping cart code to use with it. Now I had read about the 'asfunction' function that allows you to call an ActionScript function from an HTML anchor if it is loaded within the movie.

So the set up was to have a bunch of buttons down the left, and a text area on the right which would have HTML loaded into it. The buttons each make a call to my php script something like this...

myVar = loadVariables('gateway.php?catid=1');
textarea.htmlText = myVar;

In return my script obviously provides some HTML, this html contains one or more 'asfunction' call that will tell the movie to do something useful.

So what we have is say three basic functions, AddToCart, RemoveFromCart and Checkout. There is a function for each IN Actionscript that knows what variables to throw at my script, my script in turn has functions for each to manipulate the session stored cart.

My problem, is that I don't understand the variable/function scopes within flash, amongst other things, so I can't put it together as well as I suggested to him, I'm looking for anyone that's familiar with 'asfunction' and integrating flash/php to lend a hand, for a seasoned pro I imagine this problem will take a few minutes to sort out.

Thanks in advance,
Baris

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The Interaction 3d In Flash
Hello

i am trying to create a easy system, that will create 3d objekt direkly from programing. This system will be able to move the points whit a bone system, that will make it able to get a person walk an jump around, in flash from programing...

I need you help me, specifie the system, so it will be perfeck to be publish thaks

I hope that you will help me, whit this by anwsering some question, for me, at this page, it is only a 7 question

http://www.unrealhuman.dk/skema/default.php

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Php And Flash Interaction
Hello all who read this.

I am able to get flash to send variables to php, and to get php to supply flash with variables, but my problem is that I need to be able to do both at once.

I need flash to send a few variables to a php script and then the script return a value to flash indicating the success or failure of the functions it performs with these variables, and I don't know how.

Any help on the subject would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

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Hello,

I have been searching for an answer for weeks now, but I can't find any solutions. Maybe I can get help here. How can one interact with flash. For example, how is it possible to operate links, buttons or scrollbars shown within Flash. How can I programmatically, for instance with JavaScript or the InternetExporer ActiveX control, interact with such Flash pages. This MUST! be possible. Here a link to a certain site. => Flash application with buttons, links and scrollbar. I even would pay for an answer of my question, I mean it.

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Hi, i was just wondering if someone could give me some help!!

Im developing a interaction with movie clip playing on each stage and consists of 3 buttons each going to a different stage.
I need to know is there away of pressing the button that it plays another video (acting like a transition) on the same stage before it it switches to the stage that its designated to? If so what is the scripting behind it?

It would be much appreciated for any help! before i go flash crazeeee!
thanks
JB3

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Interaction Web And AS (Flash)
Hi,

Is it possible :
- from PHP page to pass parameters to Flash (SWF) file ?
- from Flash (SWF) file to retrieve parameter to PHP page ?

i'm asking that because i would like to do the following things :
- in my PHP page, user will select interface language and automatically
the flash should turn all text strings (located inside the flash) into
selected language.
- Flash animation should be able to retrieve variable value from
PHP/HTML in order to use them like : read/save from/to database postgresql.

thanks a lot,

A.

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Interaction Between Flash & Php ?
hey girls and boys,
is it possible to let flash act depending on php-set vars?

e.g. if on my page in php the var $var = "whatever";

then flash acts like this:

if (var = "whatever") {
gotoAndPlay(5);
}

or anything similar to that !?

that would be great

thank you

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Flash And PHP Interaction 1 Way But Not The Other
I've seen this done and tried reading tutorials but im getting no where!

here it is:
I can send variables from flash >> php >> mysql database

problem is i cant do it the other way, dont know if PHP is wrong or the flash. Can any one advise ? to keep simple at this stage, i have 1 column "firstName" in the mysql database, there could be 10 or 100 names but i want flash to do the work of knowing and displaying them all, so always keeping the list up to date! i have been trying now 6hours LOL, no smart comments PLZ but any help is much much much appreciated.

what i tried with failure!
Flash side (field is instance name of text field on stage)

Code:
myLVars = new LoadVars();
myLVars.load("flashScript.php");
myLVars.onLoad = function(ret) {
if (ret) {
trace(this.firstname);
field.text = myLVars.firstname;

}
};
PHP side, just the displaying attempt

Code:
$query = "SELECT * FROM $table";
$result = mysql_query($query, $conn);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo "firstname=".$row["firstname"];}
ALL i get is UNDEFINED in the final text field ! dont even think this will display the entire list of names would it? would it?

thanks guys, plz help a lad in need

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Vb & Flash Interaction
I have created a flash movie with a quit buttion and loading that using vb form. and sendind values from flash to vb using fscommand("quit"), but while i am closing the vb form using unload me it hands , but it works with end command. how to solve this

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PHP - Flash Interaction
Hello!

I've got a problem: I can't get some variables loaded into my flash movie. It is meant for a login script. The actionscript, which posts the key:

on (release) {
loadVariablesNum("http://localhost/onderzoek-online/site2/dev/Login.php", 0, "GET");
if (access == 1)
{getURL("http://www.onderzoek-online.nl", "_blank", "GET");}
else
{gotoAndStop(15);}
}

The PHP (test) script:

<?PHP
if($HTTP_GET_VARS["key"] == "correct-login")
{
echo "access=1";
}
else
{
echo "access=0";
}
?>

Thanks for helping me.

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HTML And Flash Interaction
i need help:

I just need select form in Flash whose show filename choise...

in HTML that lok like this:
<select>
<option>aa
<option>as
....
</select>

maybe is posible send variables to php, whose make select form, and on press submit button send back a choise...

What is the best wey:...

thx

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Flash And HTML Interaction
Hey, i've encountered a problem. I am working on a website, and it is mostly done in html. On the top i have the navigation, which is a drop down menu made in html etc. Below the menu is a flash movie and everytime you mouseover the menu, and it drops down, it drops behind the flash movie, making it impossible to see or make a selection. How do i get it so the html menu drops in front of the flash movie so you can use it. I would greatly greatly appreciate your help, as im trying to get this ASAP. Thanks a million guys - Jeff

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Html And Flash Interaction
hey guys

ive seen numerous posts on this topic before but i honestly couldnt find any or anything in the movies or tutorials.

i want to make it so that my html links can tell the swf file what to do. like rollovers, clicking etc....

thanks all

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Audio Interaction In Flash
hello friends,

This is senthil. I am using flash MX. I want to create a character that speaks in synchronization with the audio file. ie, if the audio file says " hi..................how...................are..... ..............you" the character should animate................animate..................an imate................animate. clearly speaking.if the wave output of the audio file is none, than the character will be silent.if the wave output is raising then the character should also animate.is there any provision? am new to scripting.unfortunately my first project in my office happened to be this one.so guyn n gals whoever know it pls do send me a reply to

senthilarularasu@yahoo.com

thank you

note: pls this is very urgent. am online n refreshing the page again n again for replies.

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Question: are there any video formats or methods which would allow controlling a video through Flash? Example: use Flash buttons to jump to different scenes of a video

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Html Interaction With Flash
Greetings,

Here is an example of what I'm trying to accomplish:

When the end user rolls over a .gif on an html page, I would like to send a command to a flash movie located on the same page as the .gif. The command I want to send to the flash movie is a "go to frame and play" command.

I'm sure this is possible, even if there is a "creative" way around the problem.

In case you are wondering 'why not embed the gif inside the swf?' Well... because. Ok? Just because. There's a reason that requires a lengthy explanation with very little payoff.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

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Interaction Between Two Flash Files
Thnks Bill
but can u explain it how it happen...

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Is it possible to command the content of a flash movie with a html button?

example: in my html page I've got a movie called movie.swf with an empty clip, let's call it img. I want to load other clips or images into that movieclip. Normally I'd use a

on (release) {
loadMovie("imm/1.swf", "_root.img");
}

command; is it possible to do the same with a html link on the same page?

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I am making a multi-user flash program. When one client makes a change, the other clients need to be notified. The simplest way of doing this would be a php file that returns whether or not there has been an update, and then just have the client repeatedly loadVars on it. The problem with this is that tons of unnecessary queries are made, and there is a maximum update time (ie: if the client checks every 10 seconds, it would take 5 seconds on average for an update to go though (disregarding latency), and it could take almost 10 seconds).

Best way would be to have a server, have all the clients connect to it, and then have the server send updates. Big problem with this way is that firewalls can break the game, and getting the server to work. I am not sure whether I’d do better to write the server in PHP (which I have never tried) or whether I should write the server as a C++ daemon, and then have the PHP scripts connect to it to send commands… (I might have answered my own question, typing seems to slow my sleep deprived thought processes enough for my sleep deprived brain to understand them). Plus I could use a hybred arch, where if the game can not connect to the server (due to firewalls, it having crashed), it can refresh through load vars - and players using load vars when the server was known to be working could only be allowed to play on slow settings with other slow players.

What do you experts think the best approach would be?

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JQuery & Flash Interaction...
Hi all,

has anyone had any experience of getting javascript created using jQuery & flash to communicate with each other through the external interface?

I have no experience of JS or jquery but a client has built a site with it & PHP. On a page he has my flash app (a resizable graph with labels) & a multi-column table with information that pertains to the labels. When the label is clicked on the graph, the table needs to highlight/expand the relevant cell. When the table cell is clicked, the flash app needs to move to the relevant position.

In order to quote reasonably I need to know if this requires hand editing of the JS code created by jquery or is it much simpler? My understanding of these things pretty much stops at the external interface call.

Many thanks,

PMF

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Php-flash Interaction Reference
I noticed some php-flash interaction related questions here lately, so just some nice starting references I saw (all from MM devnet)

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/...ashmx_php.html
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/...es/amfphp.html

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Hi every one I wanted to ask this little thingi

can you specify a frame name in an html hyper link to go to that frame in the swf file when clicked

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Flash Interaction Question
Scenario:

I have a menu with 7 items. I have rollovers and rollouts. When you click on a menu item, it loads a MC that displays content.

Problem:

If they click on a different menu item how do i check to see if a MC is loaded in the content area, and then if there is one, it should reverse that MC and replace it with the new one.

Idea:

set a varible (IsMovieLoaded) to true or false whenever a MC is loaded, if the varible is true it will use a prevFrame loop to close it. and then proceed to open the new one.

Is this the best way or is there an easier way?

Case

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hi,
i created a huge flash application and i need it to interact with an ASP file that interacts wiht a database. But when i loadvars in flash it take a very very long time to load. My guess is that becaus there are sooo many variables, passing them all takes a long time. Is there anyway i can pass only a few variables or speed up the process?

Thanks

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ive been trying to latly get this rather impressive peice of flash coding which can be found here http://www.nastypixel.com/prototype/?page_id=73 where a dot follows the movement that you make on the webcam, My plan is to have some movie clips around the screen like a drum etc and when the red dot hits it, it will play that movie clip sound clip.

Only thing is all the collision detection coding ive found hasnt done the trick playing the movie clips ive placed on the screen, is there anyone that can help me with this problem? any sort of change when that red dot touches another movie clip is progress to me atm.

(the code for the above link is has been placed in scene)

thankyou for any help you can provide!

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I cant seem to find anything on this - mebbie im not looking hard enough, but i would be very gratful for any help given.

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Problem With Php And Flash Interaction
My flash works fine when I run it in the flash player, but does not work in the web browser.... The yourName field is always undefined when I run it in the browser.
this is my AS

// for select query
var select_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();

// create a string to show where to access the PHP script
var filepath:String;

if (_url.indexOf("http") != 0) filepath = "http://localhost/tutorial/";
else filepath = "../test/";

select_lv.onLoad = function(ok:Boolean) {
yourName=this["nickname"];
}

select_lv.sendAndLoad(filepath + "getscores.php", select_lv, "GET");

and my php is just

<?php
echo '&nickname=bob&';
?>

When I tried to preview the flash file locally in firefox I get a pop up saying:

adobe flash player has stopped a potentially unsafe operation.

The following local application on your computer or network:

blabla.swf

is trying to communicate with this Internet-enabled location:

my ip address

to let this application communicate with the Internet, click settings.

You must restart the application after changing the settings.

I am going to assume facebook is probably trying to block the same action

Can you guys send me a link or tutorial as to how I can get flash to interact with the variables in php?

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Is there anyway of getting the two to interact?

Basically I'm creating an SWF which is sort of a slide show type thing, the only thing is that it will hold hundreds of photos which will be loaded externally and each image will have with it a small description.. and to store all this info in a flat file would probably be slow.

If there is a way to do it with mysql/flash/perl that would also be good

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I need to create something similar to this in the following website:

http://www.bu.edu/

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Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Thanks.
mike@spdesign.net

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3 the central, main frame where all the pages will be displayed; classic enough, uh? this one will be 'main'.
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ex:

Code:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">

</script>

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G

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In this same way the swf files are embedded inside html and are linked with next back buttons which are html driven....i.e the buttons are not at all a part of flash. they are independent of flash sitting at the bottom of the screen.

now here is the situation....lets say one swf wih 100 frames long is plaing its animation. Now, i want the next button to be deactive for the entire animation, so that the user does not jump to next frame by clicking next button from middle of animation. When the animation reaches 100 frames the next button must get activated.

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is such stuff possible?

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Thanx in advance,
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I need some tips on how to do this. I am new to AS but i havea good knowledge of PHP so its easy to catch on.
What i am trying to do is when a user view a certain thread which has attachment in the first post ( a music attachment ) i want to replace that attachment with a flash player.

Now Most of that is done inside the vB theme options which i can do. But how would I do this: upon a user hitting play the player gets the postid from a phpfile then executes another file which retrieves the media file and sends the info back.

I know this is probably a questions to those certain someone's that have knowledge in both AS and vB. Sorry

Anybody can give me any tips?

PS: I did search and look through some code but i was not able to come up with anything that works.

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Hi all,

I have to build a website that uses a flash menu (one of those that the button remains "on" until you click another button). I want this menu to stay through the pages instead of having to create a different flash movie for each page as I want button 1 to remain down while it's on page 1 and so on.

I though the best way to do it was to create the main content of each page inside divs then control their visibility with the buttons. Something tells me that this would involve some javascript.

I haven't started making the content area so it may be done using either css or html.

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I'm building a prototype where I use a flash movie to show a user how to do something. For example; I want to show the user how to change a theme on my web app by playing a flash movie on top of the web page. The flash movie shows a big hand that floats across the page and stops on the link the user needs to select.

My question is, is there any way this hand can trigger events on the html page? For example; as the hand floats across the app, it floats over a series of tabs built with HTML on the web app. These tabs have DHTML mouseover effects that change the color when moused over. I want this hand to also trigger that event.

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I've got a frameset with 2 frames only, one at the left and the second at the right. There is a Flash movie working as a menu at the left frame, from which I load different pages in the right frame.
What I am trying to do is to find a simple solution to the "Flash back button" issue. As most of you probably know, the browser back button does not bring the Flash movie to it's previous state. It only takes the main frame content back to it's previous page leaving the Flash as it was before clicking the Back. That is a big problem for me since the Flash movie and the main frame content are (should be ..) synchronized.

What I did was to create an onLoad > control Shockwave/Flash behaviour on the page at the right, so when the page loads it brings my Flash movie to the appropriated frame as people click on the Back button.
That is when the problems start. Although it actually works (IE only, since I'm sorting one browser at a time)), there is one page I can't make to work at all. What amazes me is that the code is exactly the same on all pages, they all work apart from this single one.

The code:

The function:

function MM_controlShockwave(objStr,x,cmdName,frameNum) { //v3.0
var obj=MM_findObj(objStr);
if (obj && obj[1]) obj=obj[1];
if (obj) eval('obj.'+cmdName+'('+((cmdName=='GotoFrame')?frameNum:'')+')');
}

The body tag with the onLoad trigger on the page that WORKS:

<body bgcolor="#666666" text="#FFFFFF" link="#FFFFFF" vlink="#CCCCCC" alink="#FFFFFF" onLoad="MM_controlShockwave('Menu_left?leftFrame','','GotoFrame','37');MM_preloadImages('../../../images/Jpegs/portfolio/port_top_2.jpg','../../../images/home_02.jpg','../../../images/Jpegs/portfolio/poems_top_2.jpg')">

The body tag with the onLoad trigger on the page that DOES NOT WORK:

<body bgcolor="#666666" text="#FFFFFF" link="#FFFFFF" vlink="#CCCCCC" alink="#FFFFFF" onLoad="MM_controlShockwave('MenuLeft?leftFrame','','GotoFrame','23');MM_preloadImages('../../images/home_02.jpg')" onFocus="MM_controlShockwave('MenuLeft?leftFrame','','GotoFrame','24')">

The address where the pages can be seen:
Since this is only a test page, please make sure you don't click in any other link apart from the flash movie or the back button. That might take you to pages not linked back to the ones I'm trying to fix
http://www.arnoldborgerth.com/Main/framesets/fr_portIE.htm

Any help will be much appreciated

Thank you all in advance

Edited: 05/23/2007 at 08:08:26 AM by Photo_Arnold

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