Perl and Flash
Has anyone got any experience with Perl and Flash? More specifically, taking a form input, passing the paramaters into a Perl script and then back into a Flash movie?
Or PHP if I become desperare.
- wil
Has anyone got any experience with Perl and Flash? More specifically, taking a form input, passing the paramaters into a Perl script and then back into a Flash movie?
Or PHP if I become desperare.
- wil
Mark Hensler posted this at 17:07 — 11th December 2002.
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I don't know if you can push data into flash, but I've pulled it from flash. Meaning, I've had Flash request a url which did some processing, then returned data for it to parse.
Mark Hensler
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TonyMontana posted this at 06:19 — 12th December 2002.
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Yes, you can send and receive data from the server to the .swf file, Perl, PHP, ASP, JSP, .net, ColdFusion etc, or even setup a real time java socket connection.
TonyMontana
Mark Hensler posted this at 07:46 — 12th December 2002.
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I have very little experience with Flash. I know you can send a HTTP Request, then receive and parse the HTTP Response (with their ActionScript or whatever it's called). But I cannot see how it is even possible to push data to a flash script (i.e. - send data that was not requested).
Can really you put Java in a Flash file?
Mark Hensler
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zollet posted this at 08:39 — 12th December 2002.
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Mark,
I haven't used Flash in a long time, but I know you can't send data to Flash (using a backend script) if your Flash movie has not requested it. Maybe you can do it with Java or JavaScript, I'm not sure.
Mark Hensler posted this at 23:43 — 12th December 2002.
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Sounds more like writting an applet, but with better GUI capabilities. (goodie goodie)
TonyMontana posted this at 00:40 — 13th December 2002.
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Flash has an XML socket object, you can establish a real time connection to a java socket and send and receive video, chat, online gaming etc. Flash Communications Server is being used for a bunch of stuff, probably along those lines also.
TonyMontana
Wil posted this at 15:15 — 14th December 2002.
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Well I managed to figure this out after a serious amount of RedBull -- check out the results. An e-card for a client. I think the ecards are really funny and we had a right good laugh taking the photos:
http://www.rachelsorganic.co.uk/ecards/
- wil
TonyMontana posted this at 21:16 — 5th January 2003.
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I read yesterday that the XMLSocket is indeed the method Flash 5 and MX uses to push unrequested data to the user without refreshing.
TonyMontana
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