renegade44 Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 I have a flash site, well im working on one, and I am trying to find out if I can load a news system in a flash document. I have the news.php and all the corresponding documents loaded on the server. Is there actionscript to load the news.php in my flash? if its possible, how can I add css to it of thats at all possible? I appriciate any help, and by all means if you know of a tutorial or something that would help me That would be just as good. thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellReal Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 -okay, you can't like.. merge php and flash.. you can make flash with php, but you can't make php with flash. what you can do.. is set up the news handling functions in your flash, and let news.php just retrieve parsable information in flash... for example news_1_title:"How to kiss your girlfriend without getting sprung!" news_1_data:"To be honest, get an ugly girlfriend" then handle the data in flash and put it wherever it goes.. sorry for a bad explanation.. but I havn't coded actionscript in quite a while lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renegade44 Posted December 30, 2008 Author Share Posted December 30, 2008 I beleive I am following you with the php in flash/flash in PHP reference. How can I "retreive" the news in flash? I would assume I have to actionscript my frame in flash to get data from my news.php file, Its how and where do I input the info in flash to make that happen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellReal Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 well thats the thing in programming, wherever you want it to show up, thats where you'd make it show up, however.. getting the data shouldn't be too hard.. lemme do a quick lookup.. *looks up* doo dooo dooo... lol http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00000316.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renegade44 Posted December 30, 2008 Author Share Posted December 30, 2008 ok, im a bit lost now. the link you attached doesnt have anything for PHP. its all.txt and a date and time stamp. essentially Im just trying to get the contents of a php document to show up in my flash document, I tried to do the Get method and nothing shows up. do I have to use a dynamic content box in the flash document to get it to work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellReal Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 php returns html.. a text document and an html document are BOTH text documents.. just browsers handle html documents different.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renegade44 Posted December 31, 2008 Author Share Posted December 31, 2008 I dont think we are on the same page man, im confused. Basically I want my php document to show up in my flash document. how do I do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellReal Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 you want the ACTUAL CODE to show up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renegade44 Posted December 31, 2008 Author Share Posted December 31, 2008 no man, sorry for being such a PHP tool. LOL. here ill give you links. if you go to www.titanscountry.com/index2.html thats my "test flash site" in the "news tab" I want www.titanscountry.com/news.php to show up there. How can I do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellReal Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 ok bro, well, you don't seem to be understanding me.. so I'll try to explain it 1 more time, not being mean or anything... the URLLoader I linked you to in as3, is like php's file_get_contents function.. which gets the contents of the file.. now.. like you'd parse weather.com to get the weather to show up on your website.. you'd parse your own site.. or make a php file.. which outputs ALREADY PARSED information.. that way when you use the data you parse form this file in flaqsh.. its that much easier.. in flash you need to create text fields for text.. and then you put the parsed data inside the text areas.. you can't just do sumfin like include("your file"); theres no such thing in flash (I don't think) YOu need to parse your data in flash, from 1 of your php files.. then display the data sorry if you don't understand what I'm saying.. I hope someone else will read this and explain it better to you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renegade44 Posted December 31, 2008 Author Share Posted December 31, 2008 ok so on the flash site I create a dynamic text area, and I actionscript that area to parse my .php file. do I have to make any adjustments to the .php file or will flash just take it as is. also how do I parse? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellReal Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 You could make a file called xmlnews.php and echo like <content> <newsItem> <date>10/25/08</date> <subject>Titanic2 goes down! Rose JR. is a prostitute!</subject> <text>Yeah, when the titanic went down it felt sooooo goood, then a voice came out of no where "Give me $50 dollars...."</text> </newsItem> </content> flash has xml handlers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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