[squirtpunk]

I need help! is there anyway to embed certain SSI tags or anything like that into flash? for example to run a hit counter or anything where you have to load a program from your server into the page requested? the reason i ask is because i really need to know how to put a counter on my site and also i wanna be able to do the same with maybe news updaters or something, so is there a way to load files from external sources or if now how would you make at least a counter in flash?

[FlashMove]

Hi squirtpunk, welcome to FlashMove.
You can use loadvariable to load cgi scripts into flash and which will work. SSI can only read off html pages.
So it would not be possible.
You can try this counter script i upload.


To load news from external source, you can use the loadvariable and select the text source too.

You cannot upload directly using flash but can have a popup html page to browse and upload the file.
hope this helps.

[Gargoyle]

if u need security from flash sending and recieving data from and to the server i just could offer u to implement cryptografy on both sides. this is expensive coz u won't b able to use common sockets or algorythms or anything else servers normally provide to ensure the security of data exchange but it is possible. either learn it to do it on yar own, or ask me or anyone else to do it for ya or find someone to it. best would be to start informing at rsa.net or com or org or whatever this is the first step to enable an keyexchange. u also need an on demand key generator and a sessioncontroller even lost connects got to be thought of...
this thematic easily is going to double yar project's budget but if u want more than the usual security that is provided by standard interfaces ssl or ssi there is no way around it. it was already proved that flash is able to handle 8192 bits keys when the machine on which it was running was fast enough this was 8 times more than the standard of that time.
but the server also needed alot of rescripting.

[squirtpunk]

im lost now, ok so i know that you cant run SSI off a flash movie, but what is this load variable thing? i played around with it and it didnt seem to work at all also, how would i do stuff like guestbooks, counters, and form mail? i cant even imagine where to begin with that, oh yeah thanx gargoyle but im not too worried about security yet anyway

[Gargoyle]

hehe well to answer such simple questions, there is an extraQL tutorial made by our big guru *g it is i think a guestbook or stuff just search the downloadsection for such a file made by flashmove there r lots of routines in it and much to discover... ust play around with it a bit and try to understand what it does and how it works... well it's not a real tutorial , but he also shared the fla so u can have a look at it...

[squirtpunk]

i must not be getting this, what downloads section of this site i dont see one anywhere knowing me its probably in 100 pt letter on the front page but i dont see it at all and i also had a question about the LoadVariable Flashmove said i could load outside text sources into flash but i tried that like 500 times and nothing workd, went to the flash help references, then to macromedia.com and nothing at all helped me understand that im gonna keep looking but if anyone can help me with it once again, id be in your debt

[FlashMove]

you can download this counter script i juz uploaded.
http://flashmove.com/fla/counter.zip
Our source file section is currently in construction.
My apologies.

[Gargoyle]

hey m8 i meant yar guestbook, the one with the old fm colors... (darker blue i think on black background u remember this file?

loadvars...
u know urlencode? it's generated out of variable value pairs divided by&
such a query looks like
name=gargoyle&age=unknown&whatever=alsodunno

this way u feed flash with data. i would suggest starting with a little example
what about a name=yourname&eof=true;
now set eof to false in yar flash movie and generate a dynamictextfield which is named "name"

(eof means endoffile and is commonly used for our purpose.
the varibalename in the textfile got to b the same as the one in flash otherwise the new variable is going to b created in flash.)
now give yar film 20 frames
at the first one u just set name="";
eof=false;
the second frame just contains the loadvariablesnum command refering to the textfile.
then frame19 u check if eof is true.
if so the loadcommand (which of course needs some time even if the server is slow) was successfull and u now could display the name stored in the variable name or do anything else with it... remember i set name to "" this value now has changed to the one entered in the textfield.

if eof remains false u jump back to frame 2
frame 20 continue with the rest of the film...

thats how it works possibly 20 frames may not b enough for lame servers...