[pjking]

Hi all,

I'm passing 3 variables from a php script to flash.

$city
$temperature
$conditions

I want to target a movie clip to appear on condition of the result of the $conditions variable.

"Cloudy" = target instance name cloudy - movie clip cloudy_mc
"Mostly Cloudy" = target instance name mostly_cloudy - movie clip mostly_cloudy_mc
"Sunny" = target instance name sunny- movie clip sunny_mc
"Rain" = target instance name rain - movie clip rain_mc
"Snow" = target instance name snow - movie clip snow_mc



Actionscript

// load values
loadVariables("ip5.php", "");
 
// hide weather icons
_root.mostly_cloudy._visible = false;
_root.cloudy._visible = false;
_root.sun._visible = false;
_root.rain._visible = false;
_root.snow._visible = false;
_root.thunder._visible = false;
 
 
// show weather icon for the weather condition
if (conditions == "Cloudy") {
    _root.cloudy._visible = true;
} 

The 'if statement' doesn't seem work.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?


Many thanks
pjking

[UnrealEd]

loadVariables doesn't wait untill all data is read from the php file, and then continue the script. Instead it will create a "thread" (doesn't really exists in flash if i'm not mistaken), and continues the rest of your script while it is loading the data.

You should use LoadVars instead:

var lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars ();
lv.load ("ip5.php");
 
lv.onLoad = function (success:Boolean) {
  if (success) {
    if (this.conditions == "Cloudy") {
      _root.cloudy._visible = true;
    } elseif (this.conditions == "....") {
      // the rest goes here
    }
  }
}; 

[pjking]

Thanks UnrealEd,

Working perfectly now.


All the best

pjking