Thanks very much everyone. Not only has it been explained very well,
but I am now also armed with that highest of argument-stopping
qualifications: "People on Flashcoders said so!"
Cheers all!
On 31/10/05, Benjamin Herholz | [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> - you have a html form with a flash movie embedded.
>
> - the html form calls a server side script to submit the data of the
> form to a database.
>
> - the html form can only send variables which are in its scope.
>
> - as you have a flash movie embedded in your form you have to make the
> variables of the flash movie available to the html form.
>
> -to do so, you have to send the the variables in the flash movie to the
> html form, or as Michael Bedar said: "You would need to call a
> javascript function from AS when the user clicks the inside swf and set
> the value of a hidden form field".
>
> - you call a javascipt function from a flash movie like:
> getURL("javascript:processFlashData(" + xVal + "," + yVal + ")");
>
> - the js function needs to write the variables into hidden fiels in the
> html form.
>
> one more thing:
> "I've always thought you used loadVariables to call an (in my
> experience) ASP or PHP page that talked to the database."
> thats true, but you dont want to send the variables from the flash movie
> to the db, you want the html form to do that...
>
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