Passing data from php to flash

[ronytom]

I am creating a quiz program. For this i get the loginid in my php page and i hav linked to a page where i hav embeded my quiz.swf file... after the quiz i display the marks in my movie itself and i sucessfully passed the marks to my php. Now the prob is i hav to get the corresponding loginid also with my marks so tat i can store them in a database. is there any way to pass the corresponding loginid to the quiz.swf??


Can anyone plase help me ? I am using flash 8.
Thanks in advance

[lilalfyalien]

Do a google search on LoadVars() tutorial...

[ronytom]

I am tring to just pass the variables from php and display them in flash

My php code:
<?php
$firstname="Rony";
print "firstname=$firstname";
?>

In flash i hav a dynamic text field with the variable name as "firstname"

My actionscript:
loadVariablesNum("nameofphp.php", 0);
firstname.txt = firstname;

But i get nothing when i run my swf.Both the files are in the same location.Can anyone please help?

Thanks in advance

[lilalfyalien]

Are you loading this through the Flash IDE or testing it live? This tutorial seems to be doing exactly what you want to do: How to use LoadVars Tutorial

It could also be that you have to do something the fact that you're not "swonking"- you have to wait for Flash to finish loading the data in, otherwise you essentially end up calling a method on said data before it's loaded as Flash doesn't perform a method/function and then wait it will carry on- which I expect is happening to you. Look at the tutorial above, it shows you how to combat this problem by creating a delegate function which will wait for your data and then try to use.

[Newsgroup_User]

Also, look at embedding your movie using SWFObject, it allows you to easily
pass variables from PHP into your movie.
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/


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[ronytom]

Thank u so much Mr.lilalfyalien.... The tutorial helped me

Now wen i run from flash, i get a seperate window called output and in tat i get "Variables Loaded"

Now wat i want is i should display the values in the variable in my movie itself. For that i think i should use dynamic text.

Can u please explain that step and also the corresponding actionscript???

Thanks in advance