loadVariablesNum to LoadVars

programming flash
1

When I was working with a txt file locally I used this command

file = new LoadVars();
fileURL = “PhoneBook.txt”;
file.load(fileURL);

But now I am posting this file to a server so the code changes to

file = new LoadVars();
fileURL = (“PhoneBook.php?Ran=”+random(999), 0);
fileURL = “PhoneBook.txt”;

This does not work; flash does not see the txt file.

Flash does see the file online when I use
loadVariablesNum (“PhoneBook.txt?Ran=”+random(999), 0);

But I would rather use LoadVars.

Any suggestions.

2

Why do you have 2 fileURL variables doing two different things?

3

Funny you ask. This code is from h88. It comes from a project I did a few months back and h88 helped me with it. In fact you did too, but not with this part.

If I take out any part of this code my project will not work. So I believe I have to have file.load(fileURL). This is what you load into loadVares. What you put into loadVars is the file(URL), which is the TEXT file.

So, I do not believe they are doing two differnt things.

:geek:

4

file = new LoadVars();
fileURL = (“PhoneBook.php?Ran=”+random(999), 0);
fileURL = “PhoneBook.txt”;

Ok, well that looks a bit off to me. As I believe I stated before to you, I am not good with server-side Flash… but I will give it a shot…

Try this…

fileURL = "PhoneBook.php?Ran="+random(999);
file = new LoadVars();
file.onLoad = function(success) {
	if (success) {
		//do this
	} else {
		trace("File Load Failed");
	}
};
file.load(fileURL);
5

I must of been doing something else wrong because I got it to work. The code;

file = new LoadVars();
fileURL = (“PhoneBook.php?Ran=”+random(999), 0);
fileURL = “PhoneBook.txt”;

works just fine, thanks for your time.

:blush:

6

Congrats on getting it to work :slight_smile:

7

???

I can’t believe that this code is what your using to post to the php file!!!

file = new LoadVars();
fileURL = ("PhoneBook.php?Ran="+random(999), 0);
fileURL = "PhoneBook.txt";

Looks weired tho. Anyways, when you try to post to a file through flash, you should use ‘send’!

myLoadVars = new LoadVars();
myLoadVars.send(“PhoneBook.php?Ran=”+new Date().getTime(), 0, “POST”);

Notice that using ‘0’ as the target WILL only post _root variables.

8

You are right h88 that is not the right code. It should look like this:

file = new LoadVars();
fileURL = “PhoneBook.txt”;
file.load(fileURL);

Don’t know how I messed that up; you can see in my first post I have it written correctly.

And thanks for the “send” info, I will try it out.