Flash to PHP interaction

[ILYAS415]

Okay ive been playing around with a flash game which i created.

The game is integrated into an arcade for a text-based game.

 

Okay basically im trying to get the end scores for the game and send them to a php script.

The php script is then meant to process the score and see if the player is worthy enough to be credited money in the actual text-based game.

 

Heres the code which is meant to send information to the php script:

_root.finalscore=_root.score;

var receiver_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
receiver_lv.onLoad = function(ok){
      if(ok){
           message.text = receiver_lv.message;
	   score = _root.score;
	   getURL("flashtophp1.php", this, "POST");
      }else{
           message.text = "There was an error!!";
      }
}
receiver_lv.load("flashtophp1.php");

 

Okay and heres the php script which then processes it:

<?
$username= $_SESSION['username'];

$score= $_POST['score'];
//OKAY THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE SCRIPT READS THE POST VAR AS EMPTY
if ($score < "100"){
$msg="You need 100 to win a prize! your score was $score $username";
}else{
$money= $score*5;
$msg="You earned £$money ".ucfirst($username)."";
mysql_query("UPDATE users SET money=money+'$money' WHERE username='$username'");
}

echo "&message=$msg $score";
?>

Well the problem is that the $_POST['score'] var is empty.

[phpSensei]

I think the best way of doing this is with Javascript

http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/flashjscommand/

[cooldude832]

Use POST. 

Flash can send POST or GET data just like a form and then its straightforward

[phpSensei]

Use POST. 

Flash can send POST or GET data just like a form and then its straightforward

 

Wow, I actually didnt know that. Learned something new today...

[cooldude832]

POST/GET aren't php unique things they are http type variables its how php uses them that makes them  unique.

 

POST & GET is your bridge for most languages

Javascript

PHP

Perl

Rails

Java

Flash

ASP

ASP.net

etc.

 

All have ways of reading post/get

[jonniejoejonson]

You need to echo the return vars to flash like this:

 

echo "&message=".$msg."&score=".$score;

 

otherwise you are only posting one variable 'message' instead of 'message' and 'score' to flash.

[ILYAS415]

Jonnie i dont think thats right. Basically im trying to send the score variable to the php script.

 

Also i am already posting vars to php script...

getURL("flashtophp1.php", this, "POST");

 

thanks,

[Kingy]

i don't know if this is what you really want, but couldn't u put the score in the url and then just get it using php.

 

flashtophp1.php?score=125

 

$score = $_GET['score'];

then carry on?

[phpSensei]

i don't know if this is what you really want, but couldn't u put the score in the url and then just get it using php.

 

flashtophp1.php?score=125

 

$score = $_GET['score'];

then carry on?

 

That method is always possible, but with the $_POST you have less of a security risk.

[tibberous]

To get data into your Flash application you can you XML sockets. One of the first big things I made in Flash used Flash sockets to communicate to a C++ socket server. However you do it, I would recommend against using Javascript - just introduces too many browser support issues.