Hey,
Is there any way I can use flash to upload things, such as a picture?
And if not, what can I use with a flash site to upload a pic?
Thanx.
There are two major problems involved in uploading with Flash:
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Flash does not have a built in file browser like HTML forms have. I believe there is a component out there that does this, although I tried it and it didn’t really work well. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t others out there that might work though.
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Flash cannot write a file to a server, which is pretty necessary in uploading a file. Therefore you’ll have to use a server-side to handle the actual uploading and have it communicate with Flash to let the users in Flash know whether their upload was successful or not etc.
So what can I do if I want to upload… I mean I understand there are problems, but is that the same as saying it impossible? Can’t I use some kind of intermediate program to bridge flash with uploading capablities?
Thanx.
You’ll first want to look out for a tool that can browse the files on the user computer from Flash, but to be honest I don’t think there are many out there that do this and that work. Next, you’ll want to look into uploading with a serverside language like PHP, and integration of PHP with Flash (LoadVars.load, LoadVars.send, etc). Or otherwise a tool that will automise the whole uploading process for you from within Flash itself. Good luck finding some.
Yaaahhh (sarcasm)… its amazing how things that look so simple never are! I’ll see what I come up with.
Thanx bro.
Hi!!! try this link…
Yup, that’s the one I tried and that’s the one that didn’t work.
