Working with files

[RoMaN]

Is it possible to download only the first line of a text file? (a php script in my case). I only want to load the variable on the first line, without wasting the bandwidth on anything else. Can anyone help?

[FlashGuru]

Not really,when you use the load variables command in flash it will load everything it finds ie var=value&var2=value2 and so on...

The only way would be to write a script(cgi,asp,php3) that will get only the first line from the textfile or script or whatever and then output it to flash when the script is called


Hope that helps!!
Regards FlashGuru

[RoMaN]

Thanks for a fast reply!
Unfortunately I can't do what you're suggesting.
What happens is that my [free] host automatically adds some javascript pop up code to every html/php file.
So when I output some variable to flash, it sees the following:
----- somefile.php ------
somevar=blah%20blah%20blah<script language="javascript"> somecode </script>
-------------------------
The way I found to circumvent this is to output the variable in php as:
echo "$somevar&blah=";
which basically assigns the javascript code to a variable blah and subsequently ignores it. However if I had to download this file every second (or even more frequently), the precious speed would drop drastically.
I really hope that Flash 5 would add some means of working with files other than are currently present.

[FlashGuru]

Flash 5 doesnt either

[RoMaN]

GRRRRRRR

That sure sucks...