loading external file from diferent domain name

[sathish_fk]

If u upload text file and swf files in one domain name its working fine. If i uploaded in different domain location message is not displaying in flash file.

In my flash file i add this script in first frame to load external file

loadVariablesNum("http://www.domainname/textfile.txt", 0,);

I've hosted text file in this domain name address and flash file in my domain name address, but the external message is not displaying.

Pls. give me an idea. I hope u'll reply to solve my problem

Thx sathish

[NerdInside]

Flash doesn't allow remote linking.

[Sid☼]

for the web it wont work. But if you play the .swf file in the Flash Player on the client side machine it would work.

[sathish_fk]

Hi thx for ur reply.

Can i retrive message from xml file that's located on another server and displayed on flash web page.

I hope u'll give an idea.

thx
sathish

[snowdude]

Sure - but you'll have to use sometype of proxy script.

1 example:

loadVariablesNum("proxy.php", 0);


- proxy.php would look like:

< ?
header("http://www.domainname.com/textfile.txt");

?>

This would be the equivalent to the first post. As it would just load whatever was located at the domainname.com/Textfile.txt - right into your movie. Same would be true for an xml file.

If you wanted to get a bit more complicated you can change that over to something like:

< ?
$URL = "http://www.domainname.com/textfile.txt";

$fp = fopen( $URL,"r");
$Results = fread($fp, 800000);
fclose( $fp );
print "$Results";
?>

If you need to POST variables to a different domain it gets a bit more complicated but is possible.