Communication w php

1

Hi,

I am trying to set up a dynamic flash gallery that will read the files inside a folder then use that data to populate the gallery.
I’m almost done!

I would like the folder that the PHP code searches in to be loaded in from flash.

I have tried to use LoadVariables as in below:


var currentFolder:String = "folderPath"

_root.loadVariables( "pathtoPHPfile", "POST");

the php code looks like this…



$folder = $_POST["currentFolder"];

function show_dir($dir, $pos=2) 
{ 
 if($pos == 2) 
     { 
        echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?>
";
		echo "<pics>
";
     } 

     $handle = @opendir($dir); 
     while ($file = @readdir ($handle)) 
     { 
        if (eregi("^\.{1,2}$",$file)) 
        { 
          continue; 
        } 

			$string = $file;
			$string_length = strlen($string);
			$firstpart = strtok($string,"_"); 
			$firstpart_length = strlen($firstpart); 
			$firstpart_length++; 
	
			$char_count = $string_length - $firstpart_length; 

			$final_part = substr($string,$firstpart_length,$char_count);
			echo "  <pic>
";
			echo "    <path>" .  $file. "</path>
";
			echo "    <title>" .  $final_part. "</title>
";
			echo "  </pic>
";
			
         	 
        
     } 
     @closedir($handle); 

     if($pos == 2) 
     { 
          echo "</pics>
"; 
     } 

} 

show_dir($folder);

If I hard code in the folder for the “show_dir” funciton, everything works perfect… So, I dont think the problem is in show_dir. However, if I try to load in the folder variable nothing happens. Seems like the variable is not getting from flash to the php script

any ideas at all?
is there a better way to go about this??

any help would be great
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