Loading an array from PHP to flash.

[Andrue]

Could someone please help me, I am loading an array into SWF using sendAndLoad. So I was wondering how to access the array. Mayeb this should be in Noobies cause I sure feel like one.

so I load it in this way

sendData = new loadVars();
sendData.id = "blah blah";
sendData.onLoad = function (success) {
if (success) {
  trace(sendData);
}else{
  trace("Error dummy head!");
 }
sendData.sendAndLoad("http://",sendData,"POST");
}

So how do I see the array now? The name of the Array is 'totaldates'

[cosmiceye]

Originally posted by Andrue
resultLoadVars=new LoadVars();
sendData.sendAndLoad("http://<--file.php goes here",resultLoadVars goes here);
resultLoadVars.onLoad=function(succes....

flash takes name value pairs just like when you whant to transmit data from a php file to another you go link.php?name=value1&name=value2
but instead of having it at the end of a link you print it out on the screen, thats what flash gets. I dunno about php but in jsp its:
out.print("name=value") and in asp its: response.write(name=value), u know, the way you do when you want to display html within php.

So if you whant to send an array, I suggest that you send a xml formatted string as one value. In flash you parse it to xml and loop throu the thing. Im supposing its a database resultset and you dont know how many of each it will hold, thats why I think that xml is the way to go. You can even set up a function for making a 2d array of the xml formatted resultset data and feed the datagrid component with it!

[psychlonex]

Moved to the backend forum.

psx

[Musicman]

Hi,

find some information here:
http://www.fontimages.org.uk/flash/struc.html

Musicman