php array into flash array

[levidyllan]

Hi guys,

I have this php page that simply reads two items from the db. One is a number and the other is an image name. Now the number is the sequence order of the images. Also it will goven the array number, as the order/sequence of the images are random and following nothing easy, and I cannot alter the db, so using this sequence number I have place the images in an array, using the sequence to order correctly see below:

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

$theImages[$row['sequence']]=$row['img'];
....

then when i echo these out normally for testing using a for loop see below I get them into the correct order as wanted:

for($i=0; $i<22; $i++){
echo '<br /><br /><img src="directory/' . $theImages[$i+1].'" />';
echo '<br />' . $theImages[$i+1];
}

Right now I can get data into flash no problem say like news stories ect but what I want to do here is to place these into a flash array so I can create a simple gallery, that will use the array to go back and forth through the images.

How could I get the info into a flash array to I can manage it with in flash actionscript etc

I hope this is enough info.

Si

[dthought]

Parse your PHP into an XML structure, then read that into Flash and parse it back out. It may feel like a little more work, but it will at least keep things clean and structured. Anything like splitting strings is going to be slow, especially if you have a lot of data to work with.

[cholin]

I did something similar but I was making a 2-d RPG game and my levels were arrays.

What I did, since my levels were simply numbers, is I added a line separator and a number separator.
My format was like
1$2$3$4...$9|
123$456$789|

Then I just split the strings in Flash because when you split a string it automatically makes an array...
quick as hell and perfect.

[levidyllan]

thanks guys, decided to go with the xml version and go into that direction, will post up my solution if working for others or simply another problem question :-)

si