Bringing data into flash

[zeroked]

I have a problem with getting data into flash through php can someone pleas help. i have a mc with a textfield inside of it and I use --onClipEvent (data) {
this.play();}
in the first frame of the mc is --
fla_body = "";
loadVariables("broadcast.php?"+(Math.random()*1000000), this);
stop();
below is the phpcode (//flash part) is where it should happen

<?php
/* this function takes a given string and does an explode by [url]
*
*/
function createLink($url){
// $tmp = a temporary array created by the explode function
$tmp = explode("[url]",$url);
// sizeof(anygivenarray) = number of elements in the array
for ($i=1; $i<sizeof($tmp)-1; $i+=2){
// creates a link out of the given url
$tmp[$i]="<a href=\"http://".$tmp[$i]."\" target=\"blank\">".$tmp[$i]."</a>";
}
// returns a string from the array $tmp
return implode("",$tmp);
}

function createmailto($email){
$tmp = explode("[email]",$email);
for ($i=1; $i<sizeof($tmp)-1; $i+=2){
$tmp[$i]="<a href=\"mailto:".$tmp[$i]."\">".$tmp[$i]." </a>";
}
return implode("",$tmp);
}

// this includes the database connection
include "broadcast.inc";

// query the table news and sorts them, this is done in oder to present the last entry at the top of the table insted of the bottom
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM news ORDER BY posted ASC");

// Count the number of rows in $result, $result is the above var. that selects the table news
$num_of_rows = mysql_num_rows($result);

//echo $num_of_rows;

//this part makes the table for the content to be displayed in
echo'<table width="200" border="0" class="linespacingbcast">';
//this for loop counts $num_of_rows backwards until it is less than zero;
for (-- $num_of_rows; $num_of_rows >= 0; $num_of_rows --){
echo'
<tr>
<td><span class="b-norm1"> '.mysql_result($result,$num_of_rows,"author").' </span>
<span class="bcast-date"> '.strftime("%a %d/%m/%y %H:%M", mysql_result($result,$num_of_rows,"posted")).'</span> <br>
<span class="bcastnorm"> '. createmailto(createLink(mysql_result($result,$num_ of_rows,"body"))).'</span></td>
</tr>';

}

echo '</table>';

//flash part
$fla_author = mysql_result($result,$num_of_rows,"author");
$fla_posted = strftime("%a %d/%m/%y %H:%M", mysql_result($result,$num_of_rows,"posted"));
$fla_body = createmailto(createLink(mysql_result($result,$num_ of_rows,"body")));
print "&fla_body=" .urldecode($fla_body);

[jeroen84]

Some notes:
-loadVariables("broadcast.php?"+(Math.random()*1000000), this);
You don't have to make SUCH a large random number. :rolleyes: Times 1000 would be good unless you let the client contact 20 times the php script or so.

-include "broadcast.inc";
Change your file to 'broadcast.inc.php'. If not and people figure out the name of your file, they can see everything in it. And that's not secure for your server. ;)

-Flash can only read things/variables in a specific format. '&var1=text1&var2=text2'/etc.

But you first put some html code on the screen. Flash can't read that and that's your problem. You should have that table within an if statement or so.

[zeroked]

thanks for the help

//flash part

$broadcast .= '<font color="#df12df" size="12"><b>';
$broadcast .= mysql_result($result,$num_of_rows,"author");
$broadcast .= '</b></font>';


$broadcast .= '<font size="10">';
$broadcast .= strftime("%a %d/%m/%y %H:%M", mysql_result($result,$num_of_rows,"posted"));
$broadcast .= '</font><br>';

$broadcast .= '<font color="#df12df" size="12"><b>';
$broadcast .= createmailto(createLink(mysql_result($result,$num_ of_rows,"body")))'<br><br>';
$broadcast .= '</b></font>';

}
print "&fla_body=" .urldecode($broadcast);