Php use to fill an array in flash . URGENT !

[Sunrider]

Hello

I am trying to fill an array in flash with PHP, but i get no results stored. When though I send a value in a flash variable with a php script, everything works ok.

I have at frame one 2 comnands, one to define the array and one to get the script going with a loaavars command.

The php print command that i use with the while loop has this form:
n++;
print("&id_array[$n]".vadiable1);

where n increases each time the loop is executed.


The result is that i get an epty array in flash.

What i am doing wrong ?

Thanks

Stratos

[Musicman]

Hi,

you wouldn't believe it - you are not setting array elements in flash but rather variables named id_array[0] - varnames with square brackets in them
Since you will need to use some actions anyway to recover these, you had better use
id_array=value1|value2|value3
or
id_array1=value1&id_array2=value2&id_array3=value3 &count=3

In any case you need to wait for the data before you can act upon them
frame 1: load vars
frame 2: no code
frame 3: if a particular variable, (id_array, id_array1, count depending on which way you use) is not set, go to frame 2
frame 4: build array from the data

Musicman

[Sunrider]

Xmmm

I does notmake sence though.

Here's why

I have this data structure

news_id - News_Date - News_text

Lets say i have 30 news that i would like to show.

So i must create 90 variables, and use these variables to fill the arrays id_array - date_array - news_array ?

On the other hand, is it possible to fill an array from a text file or the same solution applies there as well ? ( for each value i use a variable and then use the produced variables to fill the arrays ?)

Thank for the immidiate responce

Stratos

[Musicman]

Hi,

unfortunately this is the case...
And, to make things worse, if you use F5 or at least expect a certain percentage of viewers using the F5 player, you had better check whether joining the data with a delimiter character and splitting again works for all your viewers - it likes to generate "your computer is slow" messages

Musicman