Dynamic Site...
hi,
I'm planning on building a site for selling some products...
It should be totaly dynamic... what I mean by saying "totaly dynamic" I mean, reading categories & products from external xml file...
I've started building the site and got to a point where it's too complicated for me... :-(
I've loaded the xml, I've built classes for the buttons and for the buttons containers, I've added animation for the containers to fade in and out... I've also added fade-in and out for the buttons...
everthing is working well... it's just that it seems to me that it should all be done by now, by someone else...
I need something that will load categories from external xml, and will build a nice looking container for the categories buttons, and for each click on the categories button, I'll have an event that I'll show another container with the fitting products...
where can I find something like that...
I've been looking for some store templete... I found many nice-looking templetes, but they're all static.... I need something dynamic...
help!?
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Posted on: 12-24-2006, 10:32 AM
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========================================================
Attach Code
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var centerY:Number = Stage.height/2;
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// if (info.code == "NetStream.Play.Stop") {
gotoAndPlay("_root.audio");
// }
//}
//}
skipIntro.onRelease = function(){
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};
}
else {
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}
}
Edited: 12/04/2006 at 12:02:20 PM by Brenton07
Dynamic Text Shows Locally But Not On Site?
I have a dynamic text box on the _root level of my movie that loads an external text file. When I test it in Flash (MX2004) locally the text shows up just fine. But when I upload it to the site it doesn't show at all. I'm exporting as Flash 6. I just want to display as html text and not embed font (if possible). Also, there are no masks on the _root level.
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edit: Yes, I made sure the text file is uploaded to the /text directory!!
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Here is the code to load the text:
loadText = new LoadVars();
loadText.load("/text/about.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function() {
textBox.html = true;
textBox.htmlText = this.infoText;
};
Any ideas are welcomed and appreciated.
edit: Yes, I made sure the text file is uploaded to the /text directory!!
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Guidelines For Structuring A Dynamic XML Flash Site
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hi guys,
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Hey there - What kind of preloader would I need to set up for a photo gallery site with dynamically loaded pics? Since the site loads the dynamic pics before it gets around to the graphics added at author time, my preloader doesn't show up while the site is loading.
Any advice is greatly appreciated and if you need further clarification please let me know.
Thanks!
PHP Input Driving A Dynamic Flash Site(issues)
uhg...im not a php person so i had one my my programmers at work write this. And it works GREAT at work but for some JACKED up reason it doesnt work great from home. Maybe you guys can help me out.
I have a flash website, that loads its text dynamicaly from a text file.
The text file it reads from is a text file generated by a php page.
The page itself has a bunch of input fields and the idea is that you can input the text easily into those fields and have it update the flash site.
The following is a ton of code...
PHP Code:
<?php
session_start();
if(!$_SESSION['user'] && !$_POST['user'])
{
print("
<form name=stdform method=post>
<center>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
Username:
</td>
<td>
<input name=user>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Password:
</td>
<td>
<input type=password name=password>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td COLSPAN=10 ALIGN=CENTER>
<input type=submit value=Login>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
</form>
");
exit(0);
}
else if($_POST['user'])
{
$user=$_POST['user'];
$password=$_POST['password'];
if($password!="arts" || $user !="spider")
{
print("<form name=stdform method=post>
<center>
<table>
<tr>
<td COLSPAN=10 ALIGN=CENTER>
Password or user incorrect, please try again.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Username:
</td>
<td>
<input name=user>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Password:
</td>
<td>
<input type=password name=password>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td COLSPAN=10 ALIGN=CENTER>
<input type=submit value=Login>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
</form>");
exit(0);
}
$_SESSION['user']="root";
}
else if($_REQUEST['logout'])
{
$_SESSION = array();
if (isset($_COOKIE[session_name()]))
{
setcookie(session_name(), '', time()-42000, '/');
}
// Destroy current session
session_destroy();
print("<CENTER>You have been logged out.<br>Click <a href=index.php>here</a> to log in.</CENTER>");
exit(0);
}
$output_file="content.txt";
$fields[]="Main Page";
$names[]="content1";
$fields[]="Products";
$names[]="content2";
$fields[]="Tidal Force";
$names[]="content3";
$fields[]="Wave Crest";
$names[]="content4";
$fields[]="Contact Us";
$names[]="content5";
$fp=fopen("$output_file","r");
while(($field=fread_word($fp))!="")
{
$i=get_index($field,$names);
if($i==-1)
{
$value=fread_block($fp);
$extra_text.="&$field=$value";
}
else
$values[$i]=fread_block($fp);
}
fclose($fp);
$field=str_replace(" ","_",$fields[0]);
if(!$_POST["$field"])
{
print("<html>
<body>
<form name=stdform method=post>
<input type=hidden name=extra_text value="$extra_text">
<center>
<table>
<tr>
<td colspan=10 align=center>
<a href=index.php?logout=true>Logout</a>
</td>
</tr>");
$i=0;
foreach($fields as $field)
{
$value=$values[$i];
$i++;
print("
<tr>
<td>
$field
</td>
<td>
<textarea name='$field' rows=5 cols=60>$value</textarea>
</td>
</tr>");
}
print("
<tr>
<td colspan=2 align=center>
<input type=submit value=Submit>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
</form>
</body>
</html>");
}
else
{
$fp=fopen($output_file,"w");
$i=-1;
foreach($_POST as $p)
{
if($i>=0)
{
$field=$names[$i];
fprintf($fp,"&%s=%s",$field,$p);
}
$i++;
}
$field=$_POST['extra_text'];
fprintf($fp,"$field");
header("Location: index.php");
}
function get_index($field_name, $fields)
{
$i=0;
foreach($fields as $field)
{
if($field == $field_name)
return $i;
$i++;
}
return -1;
}
function fread_word($fp)
{
$c="";
while(!feof($fp) && (($c=fgetc($fp))==" " || $c=="=" || $c=="&"))
;
if(!feof($fp)) fseek($fp,-1,SEEK_CUR);
if(feof($fp)) return "";
while(!feof($fp) && ($c=fgetc($fp))!= " " && $c!="=" && $c!="&")
{
$line.=$c;
}
while(!feof($fp) && (($c=fgetc($fp))=="&"))
;
if(!feof($fp)) fseek($fp,-1,SEEK_CUR);
return $line;
}
function fread_line($fp)
{
$c=" ";
while(!feof($fp) && (($c=fgetc($fp))=="&"))
;
if(!feof($fp)) fseek($fp,-1,SEEK_CUR);
if(feof($fp)) return "";
while(!feof($fp) && ($c=fgetc($fp))!="&")
{
$line.=$c;
}
while(!feof($fp) && (($c=fgetc($fp))=="&"))
;
if(!feof($fp)) fseek($fp,-1,SEEK_CUR);
return $line;
}
function fread_block($fp)
{
$c=" ";
while(!feof($fp) && (($c=fgetc($fp))=="&"))
;
if(!feof($fp)) fseek($fp,-1,SEEK_CUR);
if(feof($fp)) return "";
while(!feof($fp) && ($c=fgetc($fp))!="&")
{
$line.=$c;
}
while(!feof($fp) && (($c=fgetc($fp))=="&"))
;
if(!feof($fp)) fseek($fp,-1,SEEK_CUR);
return $line;
}
?>
So thats the php file. It does a great job reading the current content.txt but when i try to submit new changes it clears the content.txt file completely.
Thanx for your help
Loading Dynamic Text - Identical Swf Works On One Site But Not On Another
Strange problem this.
I made a flash banner a while ago which pulled in variables from an asp page, its being used on two seperate sites and *was* working fine on both. Today I found that its failing to pull in one of the variables on one of the sites and is giving an 'undefined' error, the other one still works fine.
The odd thing is they're identical, they use identical asp files in the same sub folders of the site, but one works and one doesnt!
see here -
http://www.samespots.com/flash/quote_banner.swf (works)
http://www.nonlinear.com/flash/quote_banner.swf (broken!)
they both use an asp file - /flash/quote_query.asp - which looks to be spitting out the same URL encoded string without a bother.
I'm stumped, the Actionscript is the same in both files, they're utterly identical, yet ones broken.
anyone got any clues what-so-ever?
Scalable Dynamic JPEG On Full Browser Flash Site
Ok ... I'm going out of my head here. I've found a lot of posts in the forums here that have come oh so close to answering my question but just not quite.
I've got a full browser flash movie I'm creating. I've got a movie that scales out to 100% x 100% which has a dynamically loading JPEG for a background image and another empty movie clip that loads in the main content.
Here's my ActionScript:
ActionScript Code:
stop();loadMovie("dh_main.swf","mainContent_mc");loadMovie("background.jpg","background");Stage.scaleMode = "noscale";stageListener.onResize = function () { var stageXCenter = Stage.width * .5; var stageYCenter = Stage.height * .5;}
I want the background image to scale 100% x 100% and resize with the mainContent_mc when the window is resized.
I just cannot get that background JPEG to stretch to save my life.
Any ideas?
Alter Text Size Option On A Flash Site Using Dynamic Text
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I would greatly appreciate some advice
Newbie Needing Some Site Building Guidance - How To Structure A Site?
I need a little help - I am designing an art portfolio in Flash, and so I need it to be a site that has a few different pages that are linked between each other - you know, common sense. I really have no idea how to go about structuring that. I've been doing well at animations and buttons and ActionScript and all kinds of things in Flash, but I just don't understand how to make several pages that are part of the same document. Do you use scenes, or different "projects" within the document, or what? And then how do you link to them - just like it was any other URL?
I GUESS I mean, how do you design in Flash using a home page and then other pages to navigate to?
Help Finishing Up My First Flash Site - Using Navigation To Display Different Sections Of The Site?
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Should i make a movie clip for each section (home, info, hardware, contact), then place each movie clip in its own frame on the main time line, and on each navigation link button (each one is a movie clip) use action script and put a gotoAndPlay() code with the frame number of the corresponding section? so when you click it, it goes to that frame which has the movie clip that has the content for that part of site, say contact, or info?? if so how can i do this?
that sounds really confusing and im sorry but please help out a beginner! Thank you and happy halloween!
-Matt
here is a link so you can see the.swf
[url]http://www.filedorm.com/show.php/7839_INTOUCH.swf.html[/url]
and also here is a link for the .fla
[url]http://public.me.com/mattsh*t[/url]
your going to have to copy and paste that in your browser since the world filter on here. just repleace the " * " with an " i "
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Hello All,
I am trying to implement a custom flash player where my embedded source code (<OBJECT></OBJECT>) can be placed on various websites. I would like to gather some information of the users who are using my flash player on their site. I wrote the following code inside the flash player to gather the site URL (http referrer) so I can send this piece of information back to my server.
javascript: if(null != document.all) {
window.document['adbVcmAd'].Movie += ('&site_url='+encodeURIComponent(document.URL));
}
else {
window.document['adbVcmAd'].setAttribute('src', window.document['adbVcmAd'].getAttribute('src')+'&site_url='+encodeURIComponent(document.URL));
}
void(0);
var sl = _root.site_url;
I am able to get the site URL in IE, but I cannot get the site URL from users using Fire Fox.
If anyone has any ideas, please post a reply or send me an email.
Much Appreciated!
Edited: 01/24/2008 at 02:48:16 PM by Flasher37
Have A Flash 6 Site That Loads External Txt, Swf, And Mp3 And The Site Works On My...
mac,but when viewed on PC...none of those external files load into the main movie. Anyone know what may cause this to happen? another thing...this site was done in flash 5 (worked fine then), but went with 6 at the end to use the mp3 streaming feature.
Any insight will be greatly appreciated!
[Edited by JuanBenedit on 09-06-2002 at 10:19 AM]
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