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Hi all. could any one tell me how i can execute a .php script inside a flash 8 and display its result. Now if i call my .php script it displays an image. So i want to do the same inside flash by calling this .php and display output image.Looking forward for step by step instruction since i am new to flash.Thanks

[UnrealEd]

take a look at LoadVars on adobe livedocs

also search the web for "flash php interaction tutorial", i'm pretty sure you'll come up with something.

UnrealEd

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Thanks for your reply. I looked at some tutorials. But non of them show me step by step what to do as you know i am new to world of flash 8 . I do not want to spend many hours for this. All i want to do call the following php code :

PHP Code:

<?php

header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
    header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
      header ("Content-type: image/png");


$xml = file_get_contents("http://www.somesite.com/feed.xml");

preg_match_all('/<(artist|song|image)>([^<]+)<\/\\1>/i', $xml, $matches);

list($artist, $song, $imageurl) = $matches[2];

echo $image url;

?>

xml file:

<playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/">    
<trackList>       
 <track>           
 <title>Grass by Night</title>            
<creator>Jeroen Wijering</creator>           
 <location>image1.jpg</location>            
<info>http://www.jeroenwijering.com</info>      
  </track>      
 
</playlist> 

and use imageurl and artist and song varibles and display them. Unfortunelty non of the tutorils show how to use php variables in flash and display them!! i be happy if some one show me how to do this step by step.

[UnrealEd]

here's an example on how to get the $imageurl into flash:

// create a new loadvars variable
var lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
// if you want to send a parameter together with the lodavars, you have to fill it in here:
lv.my_param_name = my_param_value;
/* now load the page:
depending on what you want to do (just load, send data and load, only send data), you have three options:
LoadVars.send : only sends data
LoadVars.sendAndLoad : sends data and loads the results
LoadVars.load : loads a php
as you only load data from the page load() will suffise:*/
lv.load("http://www.myurl.com/mypage.php");
// now define what you want to do with the loaded data:
lv.onLoad = function(){
  // grab the imageurl
  if(this.imageurl != ""){
    // do stuff with the var
  }else{
    // something went wrong
  }
}; 

here's the php page, which is similar to the one you use:

PHP Code:

<?php

header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
    header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
      header ("Content-type: image/png");


$xml = file_get_contents("http://www.somesite.com/feed.xml");

preg_match_all('/<(artist|song|image)>([^<]+)<\/\\1>/i', $xml, $matches);

list($artist, $song, $imageurl) = $matches[2];

echo "&imageurl=".$imageurl;

?>

Hope this helps you any further

UnrealEd