Re: FLASH: dynamic flash using php3??

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Jamie,


"Is it possible to use flash with php. By this i mean to make a flash

movie that pulls in text, images and other flash movies from the server

as requested by the user."


Yes it is possible.

Some recommendations. Start by checking out swift generator

http://www.swift-tools.com . I suppose you're working on a *nix server ?

OK.

Then you can also use this http://reality.sgi.com/grafica/flash/DOC.html

A good visiting place is also http://www.openswf.org/ .


I have some php3 classes that are in early alpha that can be used with

some aspects of this but unless you very good with php/unix they won't

help you much. The basic idea is to have a flash generating environment

under php control and have something like the imagegif or imagepng of

php. I could have done it with the Flash3 format specs but opted to try

it based on Flash4 format specs mostly because Macromedia said nearly a

year ago that it would be releasing these specs and also because they

include effective added value in relation to v3. We now know that this

release is a bit vague and I'll believe it when I see it. It has been

quite frustrating and at this point the two projects I had scheduled for

development , this one and a flash format export module for Mathematica

are more or less abandoned at the moment. But then again I guess

Macromedia knows what it is doing, right ?


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