Rating System In Flash?

Rating System In Flash
Hi, is it possible to have a rating system in a flash movie? Similar to the kind used by sites such as Amazon. I have found references to flash rating in php but I don't have access to php or a mysql database. I'm looking to either do it directly in flash with actionscripts or with asp
Any help would be greatly received as I have googled myself around in circles!

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Flash Rating System?
Hi, im not that confident with my actionscripting abilities ( im alright :S).
I am wondering if there are any tutes that can show you how to make a simple reating system (vote) as i need a system like this for my site.
and yes i have read the thread by tae, and it is not what i am looking for. Just a very simple rating system will do just fine

hope someone can help me find a simple tute or source. I know I will have to use php, which will give me a little trouble

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Flash Rating System
Hi guys,

I posted the same thread over flash 8 but I didnt get any help so I thought I might give it a try over here.

Ive been making a flash 8 gallery for a website and they want me to add a rating system to it so people can rate the images out of 5, 10 or whatever. Do you know any tutorials or code resources about this sort of thing?

Thanks a lot.

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Flash Rating System
is their any simple way to create a flash rating system? I would like a very easy tut that I can follow. Thanks

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[MX04] Flash Rating System
i have made a website in PHP and was looking foa good flash rating system for it like the one attached in this document. It was really cool and i found it on one of thw sites. When you clikc submit, the data goes to the specified php file. A lot of the paramaters for this is set via html.

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[F8] Flash Based Rating And Comments System
Hi there I'd like to create a rating and comments system to the video site I'm working on. Basically the user will rate the video (stars or thumbs up) from 1-5, have the new rating process and improve or lower the video rating automatically.
For the comments the user will be able to write and send the comment and then either have it posted automatically with the option for the site moderator to erase any offensive comment or have it sent to a database for approval first and then post it by the site moderator.

I assume I need a php form and action script code?
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Any ideas / leads / examples are appreciated.
Cheers

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[F8] Flash Based Rating And Comments System
Hi there I'd like to create a rating and comments system to the video site I'm working on. Basically the user will rate the video (stars or thumbs up) from 1-5, have the new rating process and improve or lower the video rating automatically.
For the comments the user will be able to write and send the comment and then either have it posted automatically with the option for the site moderator to erase any offensive comment or have it sent to a database for approval first and then post it by the site moderator.

I assume I need a php form and action script code?
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Any ideas / leads / examples are appreciated.
Cheers

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Rating System Help
alright so i want to make a system so people can rate videos on my site, but my server doesn't support php cuz i'm just trying this out and i'm on a free server, so i was wondering if there is any way that in flash i can make a 5 star rating system without using php. thanks a lot

PS: this is the site in case you want to visit it http://www.angelfire.com/hero2/jabjib

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Rating System
has anyone come across a 'free' rating system such as this one.

see this

I would it to have a PHP/mySQL backed like this one.

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Rating System
Im building a site with music for the user to stream and download. Is it possible to to have a rating system in flash (submit form)? Thanks

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Rating System
Im building a site with music for the user to stream and download. Is it possible to to have a rating system in flash (submit form)? Thanks

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RATING SYSTEM
Im building a site with music for the user to stream and download. Is it possible to to have a rating system in flash (submit form)? Thanks

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Rating System
Hey all i animate for this site Fun-games.net and ive been set out on this "quest" to find a rating system where people could rate our movies "they are stickdeath" and right now all we have them do is go to the forum and tell us what you think...well thanx alot for any help i get later all <<<<< i like that guy o yeah it needs to be in html

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Rating System
I'm currently trying to develop a simple flash rating system, but I can't figure out something pivotal.

If you take a look here, you'll see what I have so far. The problem is that I'm wanting, when hovered over from left to right, the correct number of stars to stay up once passed by the cursor, instead of going back to the 'up' state.

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Dynamic Rating System
I am trying to build a dynamic rating system to rate different elements on my site. Does anyone know of a good tutorial on thisd subject? Or at least a good place to start?

Thanks

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Employee Rating System
Hello everyone. I am new to this site. I am designing a database for my job using flash. I want to design a rating system for our employees. It is a little difficult to explain. Basically, the office is broken up into 4 teams. Each team has 10 people. Each person on a team is rated from 1-10. The total of all individual ratings determines the overall team rating. For example, if each person on Team A is rated as a ten, the overall team ranking would be 100 (10 X 10). Hope I haven't lost you. Now lets say that out of the 4 teams, teams C & D have a rating of 80, and teams A & B have a rating of 100. To even out the team ratings, I would have to shift team members around until the ratings even out. For example, I could take one person from teams A & B, rated as a 10, and put them on team C & D. This would make C & D ratings a 90. Team A & B would have one less person per team. I need to know how I would write this in action script. I am using Flash MX 2004. I need the action script to automatically calculate the team ratings as I shift people around. I would appreciate your help. Thanks.

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Star Rating System Help
I am trying to get a function to change depending on what event triggered it.

Basically I'm trying to learn Actionscript [3.0], and I've decided to make a simple rating system with stars. Most people have probably seen something like it - 5 stars, click/mouse-over on one, and that star and the ones before it are selected. Now I've made the stars (buttons), put them in a row, given each star in the row an instance name (star1, star2, etc). My problem is that I want more than one star to light when the mouse is over it, depending on what star the mouse is over.


ActionScript Code:
import.fl.controls.Button;
var starsOver:Number = 0
function showStars(event:MouseEvent):void{
   
}
twoStar.addEventListener(MouseEvent:mouseOver,showStars)
threeStar.addEventListener(MouseEvent:mouseOver,showStars)
fourStar.addEventListener(MouseEvent:mouseOver,showStars)
fiveStar.addEventListener(MouseEvent:mouseOver,showStars)
I'm thinking that perhaps I can use just one function to do all that, but change depending on whether it was twoStar, threeStar, etc. that triggered it.

Is there a way to do this? - or do I have to make a function for each star, or change them to a movie clip, or make a "class", or is there another easier way? Mind, I'm sorta learning , so i'm not too good with programming.

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Creating A Simple Rating System...
How can i make a simple rating system which asks the user for a mark out of 5, and then updates the overall rating which is also displayed. Peolple shouldn't be able to vote more than once. Is there a way of doing this without using complicated databases and all that.

Thanks,

brocwind

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[CS3] Creating A Star Rating System...
Hi All,
I've begun creating a rating system but am unsure how to go about the actual storing and recalling of information when the user selects the number of stars. You can see a very stretched out .swf file here of what I am trying to do. I am not sure whether I need the as3 to write the data to a text file then pull the data from the same file? Any ideas would be great.
Thanks in advance,
BC

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How To Create A Star Rating System....
Hi All,
I've begun creating a star rating system but am unsure how to go about the actual storing and recalling of information when the user selects the number of stars. You can see a very stretched out .swf file here of what I am trying to do. I am not sure whether I need the as3 to write the data to a text file then pull the data from the same file? Any ideas would be great.
Thanks in advance,
BC

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Product - RATING Stars Sign In FLASH From 1-5
Hi Everyone

I need to show the STARS rating signs in front of the products according to the value given in the admin that is for eg: (1/2/3/4/5) the value which we could get from XML is in the Flash variable named as "RNUM = 1" or RNUM = 2.

So can anyone please tell me how to display the stars according to the value of 1-5 in flash?

Will really appreciate any help in this case.

Regards
F.

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Flash Search Engine Rating Problem
Hi flashers,

A question.... My webby is flash only (ie no option between html and flash). I wanna stick to this. I did have a "flashcheck" script on my index which refered you to either a flash page or a "get flash" page. I scrapped that so the index is now the flash page coz i didnt like the refering function (looks nasty imo). So if you dont have flash the index just dont work, which i can live with i guess.

My problem is tho, as the whole site is just one flash movie on the index, search engine spiders will be able to read the meta stuff in the html BUT my site will appear to have no body text as i dont *think* spiders can read the embeded flash text. This will probably result in low ranking.

Any suggestions on how to get around this?

So far all i can think is to have

1] A welcome html splash screen, which i dont really want.

2] Use a <noscript> function ??

3] Create loads of referer pages with spam body text and submit them to the search engines?

Any ideas on what to do?

Ta

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Flash.system.System.totalMemory Different Than Windows Mem Display
Anyone know why flash.system.System.totalMemory is much different than what I see FlashPlayer taking up in the Windows Task Manager?

I would expect to see some overhead, but the differences I'm seeing are quite large (i.e. 80MB vs 150MB).

Thanks

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How To Build A Rating Box?
I'm new to my Flash MX, can anyone help me to solve this problem please?

I just need a very simple box to rate, ex:

Who is the best actors below?

1. xaxaxa
2. bsbsbs
3. cfcfcf
d. kjkjkj

submit your vote!

After click on the submit, next screen it automatically shows a bar chart or pie chart.

------ 42% xaxaxa
---- 21% cfcfcf
- 8% kjkjkj
1% bsbsbs

that's all I need to know how to do a simple rating box, please help

CK

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Give Rating
does any1 knows how you cna make an .swf ore evne normal html so the visitorts can give a rating to a pic ore something

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Rating Bar Return Value
Hello
I want to make a rating bar for a website, but I don't know how to get a return value sent to the webmaster after submitting the rating...
Plz Help me out here!
Thanks in advance,
Bennovw

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Rating Threads
Hi everyone,

I just thought I would write a small thread about rating threads whilst I am sitting comfortably with wine glass not too far from hand.

Basically I think it would benefit the forum remarkedly if we as a community decided to rate any (not all) threads that we had a particular view upon (Good, Bad, Ugly!). This would help any new-commers (correct spelling? I think probably not) to sift through any hits they may come accross in their search on the forums for a solution to a particular problem they may have.

Anyway, I wont go on about it, I just thought I would write one and only one topic on this subject to try to encourage our community to take this idea onboard. I hope to see a few gold stars on this forum in the near future

regards

Shaolin

*PS. You dont have to post a reply to rate a topic, you can rate a topic even if you only read it.

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Rating Card Form
Greetings.
I have a query for you all. I need to produce a form that contains three buttons that will rate a piece of music, ie when you click 'like it' it sends info to a server. Can anyone suggest an easy way of achieving this?
Any ideas gladly recieved.
Thanks.

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Error When Rating Loops
I am trying to rate some loops and whenever I do I get the error "Sorry, auto submission is not allowed." I know that only one rating is allowed per loop per member. But, I cannot even rate new loops. What, if anything, can I do to fix this?

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Help On Simple Dynamic Rating Bar
hello all,

I have a very simple bar that i need to adjust dynamically. I am somewhat new to this so I just need a push in the right direction. I am using Flash MX Pro 2004. The "bar" consists of a outline of a box with a colored rectangle in it. Over the course of 100 frames, the colored rectangle grows to fill it. Much like a preloader. I have actionscript saying this.gotoAndStop("87"). When this is on the first keyframe, it doesnt animate, just shows at the frame 87, which looks like 87% done. When the actionscript is on the last frame it animates to 100% then goes to 87.

What i want to happen is the animation runs until it reaches the frame specified. Then I want the frame it stops on to be a variable that is changed by a record field. I am trying to use this for product ratings and want a value between 1-100 assigned to each one and then when the record is shown this bar fills up to the point where the value states.

What am i missing and is this really simple?

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Displaying A Rating Using Images
What I want to do is display a rating for each article but using multiple pictures instead of a number. The articles are loaded in from sql and disaplyed using a browse or search, user ratings are sent with the article and displayed as a number.

I want the rating to display from 0 to 5 as pictures, so a rating of 2.5 would display as 5 little icons with 2 and a half of them normal and the other 2.5 with 30% opacity.

Just want to see how people would go about doing it, what kind of code would you write for it and would you load in movie clips for each half of an image and adjust the alpha with code or make movieclips that have all of the images already in them with the alpha pre set on them.

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Image Rating Stars
Hi,

I'm trying to implement the rating stars in my site. Here's how I've thought of it to work:

I have all the star images that I need for this application. The rating for each image is stored in a database and the data is pulled using a web service and provided to the flash file. Flash then sees the rating of the image and displays the appropriate rating stars (red stars).

When user hovers over the stars, the color of the stars change to say yellow. Whatever star the user clicks, i call the web service again to pass the image number and the rating value and they get stored in the database.

I already have the web service for this and the only thing I need is some ideas of how it can be done or some links where this has already been done.

Thanks for any help
Arun

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Displaying Images For A Rating
What I want to do is display a rating for each article but using multiple pictures instead of a number. The articles are loaded in from sql and disaplyed using a browse or search, user ratings are sent with the article and displayed as a number.

I want the rating to display from 0 to 5 as pictures, so a rating of 2.5 would display as 5 little icons with 2 and a half of them normal and the other 2.5 with 30% opacity.

Just want to see how people would go about doing it, what kind of code would you write for it and would you load in movie clips for each half of an image and adjust the alpha with code or make movieclips that have all of the images already in them with the alpha pre set on them.

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Help In FOR Loop For Product Rating Stars 1-5 Please.
HI everyone

I am creating a popularity rating system showing five stars in front of the product description, the star values are given in my XML file which accordingly shows the stars in front.

I am having a problem in Looping code, please check and suggest why its not showing the proper stars as i am recieveing the right value in the text box.

I have attached the folder, any help would be appreciated
Thanks

F.

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Pictue Gallery Rating MX Extension
Any flash mx extension available to rate a picture gallery.

Thanks in advance.

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What Does System.capabilities.language Return On Your System?
I am working on a multi-lingual web site that automatically detects the user's OS or browser language by using System.capabilities.language .

Since I am running a german OS/browser, this returns 'de' in my case, but I wonder what it returns on other systems (english, french, spanish etc.)

To find this out, please copy and paste this code into a Flash doc and see what it says:

trace( System.capabilities.language );

Thx!

Mike

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Img Rating Site, Loader Component Not Loading All Imgs, Problem With Permissions?
hi everyone, i'm new to this.

i've just started developing in flash, this is my first "big" (semi-complicated) site. it's a site for an art project, where there are a bunch of images of myself that visitors can rate. it uses php & mysql along with flash.

everything is working fine except the loader component. it was working fine at first. i don't know what's changed. but suddenly maybe half of the images aren't loading because there's an error (i noticed this from safari's activity monitor):

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /~ratherorangish/rateADan/resources/mainImages/danSmile3.jpg on this server.

(danSmile3.jpg being an image that has just failed to load.)

the site is at:
http://raptor.slc.edu/~ratherorangish/rateADan/

and you can download the .fla file at:
http://raptor.slc.edu/~ratherorangish/rateADan/source/

i tried to comment my code as much as possible. most of it is in frame 1 of the actions layer.
if anyone could help me, i'd be extremely extremely appreciative.
thanks so much,
-- dan [ratherorangish]

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System.pause(); And System.resume();
I've been looking for a simple way to pause everything inside the flash player when a user clicks on a pause button. I found what I thought to be a solution by running System.pause() method. This sounds funny but the problem is that this method does exactly what it's supposed to do, meaning it pauses EVERYTHING.

There is another System method call resume(). But with the entire player pause, how is one supposed to call this method when the pause button is clicked a second time?

This is what I thought about using:


ActionScript Code:
public function pauseSystem(evt:MouseEvent):void {
            if(!sytemPaused){
                sytemPaused = true;
                System.pause();
            } else {
                sytemPaused = false;
                System.resume();
            }
        }

But once the pause() method runs, nothing is clickable. I've got tons of event listeners and things happen all at once, so I'd rather not have to go through removing and adding event listeners every time the user clicks a pause button. Any ideas? Thanks.

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Flash Hifi System
What iam try to do.

build mini soundsystem for my web page, instead of having 1 sound loop (like most flash movies), i want to use several.
What i have got so far is 4 loops all just a couple of sec's long.

the problem is when i press the button to move top the next loop it only plays the second loop and not the third and fourth

button =
on (press) {
_root.sound_clips.gotoAndPlay(_currentframe +1);
}
soundclips=
frame1/ firstloop with stop action
frame2/ stopallsounds action
frame3/ second loop with stop action
frame4/ stopallsounds action
and so on

anyboody any idea's please

cheers

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Flash MX Menu System
Hey,

I have 7 buttons, all animate on rollover, rollout etc., but when one button is clicked, it changes to a solid black state.

Problem = When a user clicks on another button, how do I get the previously clicked button to go back to it's original state, so that only the new button is in a solid black state? I believe IF/ELSE statements might work - but how?

Thanx

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Flash Xml Tree System
If you are looking for a easy actionscript free method of putting a infinite level tree in flash. This Tree uses xml and can completely be customized with no actionscript =)

xmlNavigator

http://venusiian.com/template_noBG.a...lNavigator.asp

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Windows System In Flash
Hello,

i have 6 buttons:
1) Each button will open a window when clicked.
2) Windows can be draged by a top bar and closed on a button.
3) When a window opens, it goes to a certain position. If another window is allready there, then this new window will be on top of the old one.
4) When a window is draged or clicked, it will become on top of every other windows.
5) When i window is opened, it will be loaded some content in it.

Basicly is a simple MAC or WIN windows system.

Could someone indicate me how to do this?
I never did something like this.

Thanks,
Miguel

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Flash Mail System
How must I adjust this movie http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Inter...701/index.php, so i can use it?

This is the originel script:

<?
$ToEmail = "your_email@host.com";

$ToSubject = "Flash Contact Form";

$EmailBody = "Sent By: $FirstName
Senders Email: $Email

Message Sent:
$ToComments
";

mail($ToName." <".$ToEmail.">",$ToSubject, $EmailBody, "From: ".$FirstName." <".$Email.">");

?>

I have adjusted $ToEmail = "your_email@host.com"; and filled in my own emailadres but it still doesn't work! Can anyone help me out?

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Using Flash For System Commands
I was wondering is there anyway to use flash to run system commands (ie. interactive CD-roms, internal computer programs, ect)

Thanks

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News System With Flash
I'm not sure if this has been answered before, since I wasn't exactly sure what the correct term is. I'm looking for a news system (such as NewsPro or Coranto) that would work in Flash. Ultrashock.com uses something a lot like this, but it's forum-based. All I want is something that I can easily update news with (without having to upload a new txt file for the movie to read from every time). Are there any tutorials on how to do this?

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Scoring System In Php And Flash
Hi, what I would like to realize, is a flash game, a good example would be a slot machine, in which money of the player are retrieved by a database, and are updated as long as the game goes on. I have this example of slotmachine which i really like: game.
I am quite able to send the score to the database ( i am using Mysql) but i cannot manage to get the score back from the database, and tell to the database only to look on an user score. Please Help!! the code that i have now is
<?php
/*
// FLASH-HIGHSCORE by Daniel Lonn http://www.webknecht.net
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// let me know the changes if you modifie this script for
// a better db-perfomance: webknecht@webknecht.net

MYSQL: 2 tables needs to be created:

CREATE TABLE `user_online` (
`IP` varchar(15) NOT NULL default '',
`EXPIRE` int(10) unsigned default NULL,
`NAME` varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
PRIMARY KEY (`NAME`),
KEY `IP` (`IP`)
)

CREATE TABLE `user_score` (
`IP` varchar(15) NOT NULL default '',
`NAME` varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
`COUNTER` int(5) default NULL,
`DATE` varchar(12) NOT NULL default '',
PRIMARY KEY (`NAME`),
KEY `IP` (`IP`)
)

FLASH: you have to set dynamic textfields for every output-variable
i.e. to display 10 highscore-rows:

score0 ... score9
name0 ... name9
date0 ... date9

and flash variables for name and scores for a new player
you could send and load the highscore-values with:
loadVariablesNum(highscore.php?"+PlayersNameVariab le+"&"+_PlayersScoreVariable+"&test="+random(numbe r),Level or mc to load in, "POST");
i.e:
loadVariablesNum(highscore.php?"+name+"&"+_scores+ "&test="+random(99999),0, "POST");

------------------------ VARS TO EDIT BEGIN ----------------------------------------------*/

$HOST = "xyz.de"; // hostname
$ID = "xyz"; // mySql-username
$PW = "xyz"; // mySql-password
$DB = "xyz"; // mySql-db-name

$time_range = 1800; // time-range in seconds to display online-users
$display = 10; // number of highscore-rows to display in flash
$score_min = 0; // '0' displays all scores || '1' displays only positive scores

// ------------------------ VARS TO EDIT END ------------------------------------------------


$tbl_user_online = "user_online";
$tbl_user_score = "user_score";
$date = date("d.m.Y");
$remote_addr = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");

if($argv){
$post_vars=implode($argv,'');
$post_vars_array=explode("&",$post_vars);
$name = $post_vars_array[0];
$score = $post_vars_array[1];
}

$conn_id = mysql_connect($HOST,$ID,$PW);
mysql_select_db($DB,$conn_id);

// delete all old user-data from $tbl_user_online
mysql_query("DELETE FROM ".$tbl_user_online." WHERE EXPIRE < ".time()."");

if($score_min = 1){
// delete all user-data from $tbl_user_score with negative scores
mysql_query("DELETE FROM ".$tbl_user_score." WHERE COUNTER <= 0;");
}

// user exist?
$result3= mysql_query("SELECT count(*) FROM ".$tbl_user_score." where IP ='".$remote_addr."' and NAME = '".$name."'");

if(mysql_result($result3,0) == 0){
// user doesnt exist ==> new entry
mysql_query("INSERT INTO ".$tbl_user_online." (IP,NAME,EXPIRE) VALUES ('$remote_addr','$name','".(time()+$time_range)."' );");
mysql_query("INSERT INTO ".$tbl_user_score." (IP,NAME,DATE,COUNTER) VALUES ('$remote_addr','$name','$date','$score');");
} else {
// user exist ==> update entry
mysql_query("UPDATE ".$tbl_user_online." SET EXPIRE = '".(time()+$time_range)."' WHERE IP ='".$remote_addr."'and NAME = '".$name."';");
mysql_query("UPDATE ".$tbl_user_score." SET DATE = '".$date."',COUNTER = '".$score."' WHERE IP ='".$remote_addr."'and NAME = '".$name."';" );
}

// select all user-data from $tbl_user_score to display in the flashmovie
$sql="select NAME,COUNTER,DATE from $tbl_user_score order by COUNTER desc";
$result=mysql_db_query($DB,$sql,$conn_id);
$count = mysql_numrows($result);

$i = 0;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result,MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
if($i < $display && $i < $count+1){
str_replace( "
", "",$row[NAME]);
// flash output
print "&name$i=".$row[NAME]."&score$i=".$row[COUNTER]."&date$i=".$row[DATE];
$i++;
}
}

// count of all Users online
$online = mysql_query("SELECT count(*) FROM ".$tbl_user_online);
$gesamt = mysql_result($online,0);
// flash output
print "&online=".$gesamt;

?>




but this code works registering the highest score of players. What I would like to achieve is a system where a player who has palyed this game before, can log in and retrieve is score from prevoius game.
I am not able to get this code working, and I will really appreciate any help given.
Thanks in advance

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Help On Flash News System
Does anyone have any idea how to create a Flash news system similar to the one at:

http://www.driftlab.com/

I just want a way to add a scrolling news / blog to my site w/o having to hand code everything - just modifying a text file or whatever.

I know how to load a text file into a dynamic text field, but how do you use embedded fonts and also have links, bold, etc.

It seem when embedding a font, you have no control over these things, and if you render as HTML, you can't use embedded fonts. Is this true?

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A Voting System In Flash
hello all,

wondering if someone can help me figure out how to install a voting system into a flash file. it's a simple poll where you have to choose between two choices, and you then get a pop up window with the current results.

i'm very good with the animation side of flash, however when it comes to the action scripting side...i'm well....like alicia silverstone and clueless...

i've included a pic to exemplify my thoughts.

any sample movies would be MOST helpful.

any suggestions ?

a cartoonmonkey

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A Windows System With Flash?
I'd like to create a windows system like the one we use on windows. This is what i really like:
Yo have some buttons. When u click on any of 'em a popup window opens (inside could be text, image or movieclips or all of 'em). Last window it opens always shows up on top and if u select one that it's behind this comes automaticly to the top. I'd love too if u could minimize 'em and also if eacho one opens into a new swf.

...........hope u can help me. Thanks!

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