Problem Getting PHP Variables into Flash

[SniperDave]

I've been following this tutorial on using Flash with PHP and mySQL:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/flash_php_mysql.htm

And I'm sort of stumbling at the first fence. I've got the dynamic text field set up with the variable myVar inside a movieclip with the actionScript:

onClipEvent (load) {
loadVariables("http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/stuff/phpflash/test.php", this, "GET");
}

And I've made and uploaded test.php:

<?php
$x = "abc";
print "myVar=$x";
?>

I've opened test.php, and it says 'myVar=abc' like it should.

Now when I try to preview my flash movie I get this error message:

Error opening URL 'http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/stuff/phpflash/test.php?myVar=%3Cp+align%3D%22center%22%3E%3C%2Fp %3E'

As far as I can tell, its sending a bunch of data from the text field to the PHP which is mucking it up (I'm guessing this because when I change the text field's alignment from center to left the error changes to 'align%3D%22left').

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?


Thanks.

[borrob]

long time i did this but i think it should be:
print "&myVar=$x";

[SniperDave]

God, I'm such an idiot... It wasn't a problem with the script at all, my firewall was simply blocking Flash from connecting to the internet.

Thanks anyway.

[SniperDave]

Ok, new problem. I'm now having problems with it getting the variable out of a mySQL database. What I'm trying to do is search a table for an entry and then use that to set up my variable in Flash.

So I have this for my php:

<?php

include ("conninfo.php");

$country = $_GET['country'];

$query="SELECT * FROM PE_videos WHERE videocountry = $country";

$result=mysql_query($query) or die ("Nope");
$numrows = mysql_numrows($result);

if ($numrows>0)
{
while($r=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
print "myVar=$r[videox]";
}
}

else
{
echo "None";
}

?>

So when I try going to 'http://www.mysite.co.uk/stuff/phpflash/test.php?country=1' in my browser's address bar it says 'myVar=30', as it should. This format worked fine in the first post where the variable was static.

So I update my actionscript to:

onClipEvent (load) {
loadVariables("http://www.mysite.co.uk/stuff/phpflash/test.php?country=1", this, "GET");
}

And nothing. Going to this address should use the country=1 part to do the search query on the php page which should provide the myVar variable. I'm nearly 100% sure the php is correct (after all, it does work in the browser), so I'm guessing there's something wrong with that actionscript.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[borrob]

this problem could be caused by caching. I'm not shure that it is but anyway i would advice you to put a random value in your value list tricking your browser to think there will be new info in processing the file

[prstudio]

I agree on the caching - what's the actionscript look like?

Caching information:

Prevent caching of loaded variables:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/view...nalId=tn_15951

Prevent caching of SWF files:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/view...nalId=tn_14743

[JJ2k]

Thx man, I was working on it 3 days and i could not get this tutorial running, thx of you it works now hooohhaaa thx alot!

Note: changing "print "myVar=$x";" to "print "&myVar=$x";" works on my server PHP5.

long time i did this but i think it should be:
print "&myVar=$x";

[ricferr]

Hi,
I've being trying to implement the same tutorial but I'm stuck.
I've tried both locally and on my server with no success. I managed to obtain the print result from the php file but, when I go for the database, I get no results.
I checked and double checked the table and all the scripting and all seems fine. The only problem I can remember of is the correct identification of the db hosting and user. How can I make sure that those are correct?
thanks in advance
regards
RF

[danielelvito]

I use this :

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/acti...ntegration.htm

but it dosent true ,

here this code is :

function lv(l, n, t, e, f) { 
             if (l == undefined) { 
                 l = new LoadVars(); 
                 l.onLoad = function() {
                 var i; 
                 n.htmlText = "";
                 if (t == undefined) { 
                 n.htmlText += "<b>"+this["title"+e]+"</b><br>"; 
                } else { 
                for (i=0; i<this.n; i++) {
                n.htmlText += "<a href='"+this["link"+i]+"'>
                "+this["title"+i]+"</a><br>"; 
          } 
      } 
   }; 
} 
l.load(f);
 }
 lv(sites_txt, "cycle", null, "sites.php");

with out change and next code :


<?php
mysql_pconnect ("HOST OF YOUR SQL SERVER", "YOUR SQL USERNAME", "YOUR PASSWORD");
mysql_select_db ("THE DATABASE YOU WANT TO USE");
$qResult = mysql_query ("SELECT * FROM sites ORDER BY id ASC");
$nRows = mysql_num_rows($qResult);
$rString ="&n=".$nRows;
for ($i=0; $i< $nRows; $i++){
$row = mysql_fetch_array($qResult);
$rString .="&id".$i."=".$row['id']."&"."&title".$i."=".$row['title']."&".
"&link".$i."=http://".$row['link']."&";
}
echo $rString."&";
?>



just change red words .and my sql :


CREATE TABLE `sites` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, `link` varchar(100) NOT NULL default '', `title` varchar(100) NOT NULL default '', PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) TYPE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=19 ;

INSERT INTO `sites` VALUES (5, 'www.kirupa.com', 'Kirupa');
INSERT INTO `sites` VALUES (4, 'www.voetsjoeba.com', 'Voetsjoeba');
INSERT INTO `sites` VALUES (3, 'www.cannedlaughter.net', 'Canned Laughter');
INSERT INTO `sites` VALUES (6, 'www.spoono.com', 'Spoono');
INSERT INTO `sites` VALUES (7, 'www.readymademag.com', 'ReadyMadeMag');
INSERT INTO `sites` VALUES (9, 'www.weebl.jolt.co.uk', 'Weebl and Bob');
INSERT INTO `sites` VALUES (10, 'www.aamukaste.org'); ?
INSERT INTO `sites` VALUES (12, 'www.flipflopflyin.com', 'Flip Flop Flyin'''); INSERT INTO `sites` VALUES (15, 'www.kirupaforum.com', 'KirupaForum');
INSERT INTO `sites` VALUES (16, 'www.razyr.com/blog', 'Razyr');
INSERT INTO `sites` VALUES (17, 'senocular.com', 'Senocular');
INSERT INTO `sites` VALUES (18, 'www.may1reboot.com', 'May 1st Reboot');

the red line in the top code have problem but it s dosent matter .
and in the end it s dosent work . why ?

[ricferr]

Hi all,

I've overcome most of my problems with this project except for one issue.

I have a simple one table MySQL database with 4 fields: numero, nome, email, resultado. Sorry about the Portuguese but I think its preferable, for the sake of better understanding my code, which follows:

$nome = $_POST["nomeVar"];
//$nome = "rf teste";
$email = '';

$results = mysql_query("SELECT email FROM colaboradores WHERE nome = '$nome'")or die(mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($results)) {
    if($email != '') { $email .= ', '; }
    $email .= $row['email'];
}

mysql_free_result($result);
mysql_close($link);

if($email != '') { $email .= ''; }
echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\"?>\n";
echo "<colaboradores>\n";
echo "<email>" . $email . "</email>\n";
echo "</colaboradores>\n";

$sendTo = "ricardo.ferreira@pointoview.net";
$headers = "From: " . $nome;

$subject = "qemail.php - Resultado de " . $email;
$message = "O nosso colaborador, " . $nome . ";

mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers);

The e-mail is just to check if the "nome" variable is reaching the PHP, which it is. "rf teste" is the name I have inserted in the table to perform all the testing.

I have a flash quizz game which populates a combobox with the names from the database (through PHP and XML). After answering the questions, each user selects his name and, by pressing a confirmation button, the DB should be queried for the corresponding e-mail address and then return it to flash. The result is also inserted in the DB (no problem with that).

I just can't understand what's wrong with this. If I assign the "nome" in the PHP, using the commented 2nd line of code, the query is executed and I get the intended e-mail address back, in XML, ready to be read by flash.

When I send the variable from flash, it reaches PHP and is sent back to me via e-mail but, it fails to reach MySQL as the query isn't executed. Consequently, I get a null result in my flash application.

Somehow, the variable "nomeVar" sent from flash to php is lost between querying for the corresponding e-mail address and sending the "email" variable back to flash.

I hope I've clearly put it down for you. Thanks in advance

Regards

RF