New to AS3 and xml...please help

programming flash
1

Alright, here goes:

I’m creating a personal website and I’ve been working on a section where you can get the latest news headlines. Everything seems to work perfectly when I’m in CS3 but when I put the .swf file onto my site it doesn’t show anything.

the site is here:

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/patel/index3.html

and this is the code:

var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoaded);

lb.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, itemChange);

function itemChange(e:Event):void
{
ta2.text = lb.selectedItem.label;
ta.text = lb.selectedItem.data;
//ta3.htmlText = “For full story click here " + lb.selectedItem.link;
ta3.htmlText = “<a href=”” + lb.selectedItem.link + “”>" + “For full story CLICK HERE” + “</a>”;
}

var xml:XML;

function onLoaded(e:Event):void
{
xml = new XML(e.target.data);
var il: XMLList = xml.channel.item;
for(var i:uint=0; i<il.length(); i++)
{
lb.addItem({data:il.description.text(), link:il.link.text(),
label:il.title.text()*});
}

}

loader.load(new URLRequest(“http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml”));

2

Hm… actualy, you may have some PHP/ASP script on your server that’ll get the feed whence flash requests it. So that flash won’t have to load the feed by itself.