Okay, I struggled to get my movie to show my php page, and could never figure out what I did wrong. I did get some help on here and I’m greatful.
So I am wondering if there is a way to just make an iframe to show the php page that I already have. The page connects to a database with mysql. I realy want to be able to make this flash my site, so any help is appreciated.
I appologize in advance, but I’m quite stupid with all of this. I was pretty good with Flash 4 and havent messed with it since, so you see now I am dumb with it.
I can make an iframe for a web page but cant seem to do it for flash.
Okay… enouph babbeling… here is the flash movie I have so far. Click on the lick for news in Navigation to see where I am at…
If there is any way I can just get a copy and paste thing, that would be grand. No, I’m not lazy, but I have tried to follow tuts and I am afraid that I think my mind might just be too small for this level of design.
Uhm… why are you trying to create an iframe inside Flash? That’s an HTML tag that includes another HTML page as an inline frame… you can achieve a similar effect in Flash by using a masked layer. You’d then use a textField set to HTML, and set its HTML text… but remember, Flash has a limited HTML vocabulary.
The reason being is because I have my php pages already set up to display the information as I want them to from a database (MySQL)… I cant seem to get flash to do the same because I am simply not smart enouph to understand it all. I’ve tried for quite some time now. So… I thought if I could make an iframe in the flash movie, then I can just bring up the page that is already working, within the movie… and I will have all I need to show the information.
There has to be some way of doing this. Best way I can explain it… if you go to www.blysterband.com you will see the link for news, click on that and the iframe will show the news.php page that displays the information.
If you go to www.blysterband.com/vids/trial.htm and you click on news, from the navigation drop down, you will see a window animate accross, but has nothing. I want the same php info that I have for the page that is there to work within that window.
If all you’re wanting to use Flash for is a few fancy animated bits with your HTML, then you may be better off just using JavaScript with something like the del.icio.us library as opposed to doing in Flash
I will say that you’re approaching Flash from the wrong direction - it is not an analogue or replacement for HTML. If you want to put HTML in it, you can only use a subset of tags and CSS. If you want to do HTML and CSS, better to do HTML and CSS and leave Flash out of the equation
Yeah, as others have said it’s impossible for now to display a bunch of HTML inside Flash. You can display some text formatting tags, and some css… but that’s all. Nothing fancy.
Instead you can make the whole website in HTML/CSS, and put some flash in the html. Like having the menu in flash, the video player, etc.
You can also use a JS solution like http://mootools.net/ to add some movement to the poor static html without using flash.
Oh okay. Well that isnt what I was hoping for. Oh well. I guess I’ll just create each box by itself and add the content manually. The biggest reason for the php pages is because I can edit most of the pages on my site with forms I created, the the pages display them. The pages are in iframes and there are flash buttons, but I was hoping to have the rest of it flash too.
I appreciate the help everyone. Now that I see it’s impossible, I can quite spending so many hours trying haha.
