loading arrays

[mmp770]

Hi,

I'm trying to load several arrays into a Flash movie using the loadVariables action.

I do manage to load them, but I'm trying to transfer some of the workload from the Flash client to the perl script on the server.

I have to load several arrays, of varying length each one of them. The number of arrays to be loaded is not predetrmined, neither is the length of each one of the arrays.

I have a Perl script that arranges all tha arrays into one long string using various characters as separators. After Flash receives the string it rearanges the arrays using the split method. The truth is that everything works, but it's a bit slow.

In order to transfer some of the worload to the server I was thinking of creating the arrays in the Flash movie before issuing the loadVariables, and have the perl script send something along the line

  "hhh[0]=aaa&hhh[1]=bbb&hhh[2]=ccc&hhh[3]=ddd&done=end"

where hhh is one of the arrays created in Flash before the loadVariables statement.

This doesn't seem to work. Has anyone had any experience in this?

Thanks,

mmp770

[flashswami]

If you use either XML or PHP then you can use the WDDX set to pass arrays 'as is' into Flash. If you go to http://www.dotdragnet.co.uk and go to webmaster tools>flash scriptlets>articles look for the WDDX tutorial- its got full source code with it.

It uses XML formatted WDDX, but you can do it with PHP as well.

[mmp770]

Thanks