Password variation problem

programming flash
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Hi, here’s hoping someone can solve the problem i’m having with passwording.

i have a short flash film that near the end requires the viewer to correctly answer the question ‘who is this?’

The answer is Al Pacino, and it works if i use this actionscript on the submit button;

[COLOR=blue]on (release) {[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]if (myInput2 == “Al Pacino”) {[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]gotoAndPlay (328);[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]} else {[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]gotoAndPlay (272);[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]}[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]}[/COLOR]

But my problem is this: i would rather that the viewer could put in ‘al pacino’ or ‘pacino’ or ‘Pacino’. and for it to accept any of those answers and then goto 328.

i tried using the ‘or’ function in there, like this;

[COLOR=blue]on (release) {[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]if (myInput2 == “Al Pacino” or “al pacino” or “pacino”) {[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]gotoAndPlay (328);[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]} else {[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]gotoAndPlay (272);[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]}[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]}[/COLOR]

but then it just accepts anything, anything at all, and goes straight to 328.

Am i doing something wrong, or should this work? And more importantly, how do i get it to work?

[SIZE=1]Please run any suggestions past a nearby 8 year old before posting, just to make sure that i will understand your answer! (i’m a flash newb)[/SIZE]
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Any help will be much appreciated!

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on (release) {
if (myInput2 == "Al Pacino" or myInput2 == "al pacino" or myInput2 == "pacino") {
gotoAndPlay (328);
} else {
gotoAndPlay (272);
}
}

or

on (release) {
switch(myInput2){
 case "Al Pacino":
 case "al pacino":
 case "pacino":
 gotoAndPlay (328);
 break;
 default:
 gotoAndPlay (272);
 }
}

this isnt very secure though you know that?

3

Thank you, Templarian, i’ve used the first one and it works perfectly. Just what i wanted.

Umm, i know that .swf’s are difficult to protect, if that’s what you mean. Or do you mean this particular method of passwording isn’t very secure…?

At the moment it’s not a big problem, but for something i want to do with it in the future i will need to try and encrypt all my flash files. i realise they’ll never be watertight, but delaying the decryption as much as possible would help a lot.

i haven’t had a good look at software that protects from decompiling, but is there any in particular you would recommend?

And, thanks again for the help.

4

if you just want to protect your passwords though, you could pass it through php and get the md5 hash, then compare it with the known md5 hashes in the same manner you compare these. it would add an extra step, but would prevent anyone who decompiles the swf from seeing the actual password.

5

^Yea at least do an MD5 or some sort of hash.

6

Thanks for the reply. Forgive my ignorance, but exactly how do i pass it through php and get the md5 hash and compare it?

i’ve looked up md5 and now know what that is (not saying i understand it, just that i know what it is…) but i have no idea how to go about making it go through that process…?