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Flash receives outside data through the use of parameters passed to the Flash applet. There are two ways to pass parameters to your Flash applet. You can either use the $_GET method where you just specify parameters as you would in a URL like flashapplet.swf?param1=2¶m2=3, or by just using the parameter called FlashVars. FlashVars works very similar to that of the $_GET method and is actually the preferred method for sending data to your flash application. You do this by specifying a new parameter in the object code of your Flash object. It should look like the following.
Note that each parameter passed using FlashVars are separated by an "&". Flash will then parse each one of these parameters and actually create a variable within the ActionScript so that you can use it willingly. However, using this method, you must specify every single parameter separately and within the actual object code. Do you see the problem? What if you wanted to pass a whole lot of data to the Flash applet? Well, in response to this, Flash has also added the ability to extract parameter information from external files. You actually open the file and extract the file information within the ActionScript of the Flash applet (which is beyond the scope of this tutorial), but a person could easily specify WHICH file to open by using this FlashVars parameter like the following.
Now this file can be in the form of an XML file (if you wish to do XML parsing), a text file, or even better a URL... Hmmmmmm... Now were onto something. If I can specify a URL, then that would mean that I could also specify a PHP file, and then in the PHP file just echo any of the parameters to the Flash applet (XML format or whatever else)!! Now, that's cool!!!... unless your using Drupal.
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Drupal, if you haven't figured this out already, has a ninja death grip on all database extraction. What I basically mean by this, is the only way to truly extract any database information from Drupal is do so through the Menu / Path system of Drupal. This is just crappy for me, because this means that I can't specify a file that just gives me the raw data and nothing else!!! This is a great thing for web security, but painful if you wish to have a Flash applet extract information from your Drupal database. This is what took me forever to figure out how to bypass. I tried everything from creating a separate template file... actually creating a file and using external database modules...you name it. I just couldn't figure out how to get all the raw data without Drupal adding all that template HTML crap along with it. Well, after much learning and studying of the Drupal system, I finally figured out the easiest way to do this. I basically asked myself "When I go to any Drupal URL, where is it actually going?". And the answer was simple... index.php. All the magic of Drupal happens in this extremely small file. I know it is hard to believe, but it does. When you go to ANY url in the Drupal system, you are actually going to www.travistidwell.com/index.php and then anything else is just passed as an argument to this file. This is actually brilliant on Drupal's part. So, how do you extract information from your Drupal database with a PHP file... well, create your own version of the index.php file, thats how! For this tutorial, we will call it flash_interface.php.
Create your very own flash_interface.php file
The first thing that we need to do is create a new file called flash_interface.php and place that file in the root directory of Drupal (right next to the index.php file). The next thing that I am going to ask you to do is actually open up the index.php file. You can learn so much from these 40 lines of code. If you actually study the index.php file, you will notice two extremely important lines. The following code will be your template for creating an interface file.
These two little lines are all that it takes to basically "boot" Drupal. Think of it as a Windows operating system. The first thing that happens is your system boots up and loads windows. What does it do after that? Well, it starts loading applications. Well, in your flash_interface.php file, we want to boot Drupal, but don't want to start all the Menu / Path application stuff... so, we just won't include it. So in your flash_interface.php file, all you need to do is place those two lines at the very top of the file, and then you will have complete access to all the Drupal stuff!! One big thing is the database functions such as db_query will work as they normally would in a Drupal page or custom module. So, after those two lines you can put whatever you want, and echo whatever you want! What this means is that you can extract Drupal database information, and then just echo that information to your Flash applet! Here is an example...
Pass your flash_interface.php file to the Flash applet
So, how does this all tie in with your Flash applet? Well, remember the FlashVars parameter? All you need to do is just specify the following parameter in your Flash object code.
What you can then do in your ActionScript for you Flash application is just open this as you would a normal file. To Flash, this would be the same as if you just opened a text file with all this information in it. However, since it is a PHP file, you are completely at liberty to make it DYNAMIC data using the Drupal Database. Now that's cool!!!
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Ok, now lets suppose that we wish to make a Drupal page that has a Flash widget right smack in the middle. All this widget wishes to do is show you the node information of the current page... Using this method, you could actually do this! Here's how... First, you will need to create a new page. In that page you will need to place the object code for your Flash widget. It should look simlar to the following.
Don't forget to change the Input Format to PHP Code!Do you see what I did? I basically am now passing a $_GET variable to my PHP file that has the current node ID. With this information, I can construct my flash_interface.php file to look like the following.
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