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January 19th, 2003, 07:17 AM

danielpearce

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Dynamic Flash using PHP

Hi,

I'm trying (what I thought was a simple) test to load variables from a php page into flash. The flash piece is simple, about 10 frames of the main timeline containing 3 dynamic text fields.

The variables these fields hold are obtained from a basic php script...

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php

    $FileName = "test name";

    $TotalFiles = 7;

    $Dummy = "bloody marys'";

    

    print "FileName=$FileName\n";

    print "TotalFiles=$TotalFiles\n";

    print "Dummy=$Dummy\n";

?>

The flash piece then loads them using "loadVariablesNum("fileList3.php", 0);".

Now, for some reason flash will only load the first variable stated and no others. Can anyone point out if I'm doing anything wrong?

Many thanks

Daniel

January 19th, 2003, 11:47 AM

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Hey Daniel,
you need to join your variables with ampersands so that the php pages prints out a string like:

FileName=myValue&TotalFiles=myOtherValue&Dummy=Another Value

January 19th, 2003, 06:12 PM

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Originally posted by numbernine
Hey Daniel,
you need to join your variables with ampersands so that the php pages prints out a string like:

FileName=myValue&TotalFiles=myOtherValue&Dummy=Another Value

This is partly true. There is one other problem, flash cache's files like a mofo (its bad), so to get around this you need to do.

loadVariablesNum("fileList3.php?RND="+random(999), 0);

January 20th, 2003, 03:42 AM

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Many thanks guys,

Daniel

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