Dynamically generating SWF (non-ming possible?)

[zakp0]

http://www.freeflashtoys.com/postits.html

How would I go about making that without the use of Ming? Is it even possible? Has that person even used Ming?

Try creating one, see the URL it gives you, that might help.

Thanks a lot
Zak.

[keyone.it]

1) I don't know what Ming is.
2) That website uses a very simple solution. When you click on "give me my post-it", you get the HTML code to embed a Flash movie. If you look at it closely, you will see that variables are passed to the movie URL. The movie that is loaded will have some basic post-it-like graphics and a dynamic textfield. That's it.
3) That particular solution is packed with flaws, I'll give you the first two that come in my mind:
- you can not view the post-it unless you have an active internet connection;
- Flash movies must me embedded through external JS scripts to avoid EOLAS (Internet Explorer Active-X controller limitations) issues.


Basically that solution should be avoided at all times. You should rather get the SWF library for PHP, so you can dynamically generate SWF documents via script.
But for such a simple task I would rather create plain images for the Post-It's.
You can use the GD image library, which has been available for quite a while in PHP, so it should be available at your mantainer.

If not, go check http://www.mediatemple.net/, they have good shared server solutions for cheap. Ok, no mySQL 5.0...but you can't get everything at once!

Cheers

[zakp0]

Excellent, thank you