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?
- wil
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Dec 11, 2002, 2:52 AM
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Dec 11, 2002, 2:52 AM
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Use PHP's built in features for this 
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Dec 11, 2002, 3:15 AM
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Dec 11, 2002, 3:15 AM
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If you take a look at those modules, Paul, you will notice that those modules are used to write or create SWF files. That's not what I want. I want to simply pass variables to an existing Flash movie.
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Dec 11, 2002, 3:18 AM
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Dec 11, 2002, 3:18 AM
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I did take a look at the modules Wil. If you had been more specific it may have helped - "passing variables" doesn't explicitly state that you don't want to create the flash file in the first place.
Dec 11, 2002, 3:36 AM
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Mmm...I didn't realise that. The best way to do this, is to create a SWF template file, and then have that script call the variables from a remote file (vars.txt). This is what my mate at http://www.canzine.com does with his flash templates.
Don't ask me technicalities, cos I don't know how to do it...I just know its possible
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Dec 11, 2002, 8:33 AM
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Dec 11, 2002, 8:33 AM
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Use PHP's built in features for this
Yeah - I would do that if I were you. Why are you using Perl? If it's just because you're really experienced with it, then you really SHOULD use PHP instead because: 1. I can show you how
2. PHP greatly resembles Perl, so you'd pretty much know it right off the bat
3. Like Andy said, it has built in features for stuff like this.
I'm a Flashman myself!
Are you registered with any forums? Try http://www.submotion.com/subforum/. Not too big yet, but there's NO banners because it's privately funded. Pretty cool little forum. So let me know if you want to learn it. I'll teach you some PHP myself. Got ICQ? MSN Messenger?
Later and gL,
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Dec 11, 2002, 10:21 AM
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Dec 11, 2002, 10:21 AM
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PHP greatly resembles PerlI have to agree entirely with this quote :) (erm the one below, not the one above)
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Target Appeal PHP appeals greatly to Web-content designers who know HTML inside and out, but want to spice up their site--add a little database interface here, dash a standard "look and feel" template there. PHP also appeals to the person who want to abstract HTML design, from application design. If you want multifile applications that allow you to quickly and painlessly change one file without affecting (we hope) other pages in the application--PHP is your language du jour.
Perl, as far as Web applications go, apply to the more technically minded person, programmer, or power fiend. Perl's infinite extensibility and modular design make it incredibly popular among web application developers who want a single program (usually with a horde of included modules), or a couple programs, to be their application instead of the several hundred HTML pages that the same application might require if it was done in PHP.
Dec 11, 2002, 10:31 AM
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Each to their own Paul I like Perl...but far prefer PHP.
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Dec 12, 2002, 4:10 AM
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Hi
We're an agency with various people working on various skillsets. We *absolutely need* the ability to seperate content from code from html from flash. Therefore, Perl is our best bet. We can use a Template based system so that the HTML code never has to touch a line of code and the Perl programmer never has to touch a line of HTML. Not that any could do each others job to some level if needed; I just think it's best that folks stick to their specialized skillet. That's our setup and that's what works for us.
Cheers
- wil
We're an agency with various people working on various skillsets. We *absolutely need* the ability to seperate content from code from html from flash. Therefore, Perl is our best bet. We can use a Template based system so that the HTML code never has to touch a line of code and the Perl programmer never has to touch a line of HTML. Not that any could do each others job to some level if needed; I just think it's best that folks stick to their specialized skillet. That's our setup and that's what works for us.
Cheers
- wil