server input

[stormbind]

Hi,

What would be the cleanest way to get information about a the web server's directory structure into Flash?

Thanks

--Glen

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[billwatson]

You will have to use a server side script (php?)

 

[stormbind]

Possibly, but server or script will produce a text output.

What is the best way to read that text into Flash?

--Glen

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[BluesmanUK]

The obvious choice for formatting info about a directory structure would be XML , call the server side script from flash, and have the script return the data to your flash movie as XML.

Use the XML class to manipulate that data once its been loaded

eg
var tree_xml:XML = new XML();
tree_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
tree_xml.load("

http://www.someserver.com/script.php");

tree_xml.onLoad = processXML;

function processXML(loaded) {

if (loaded) {
// start manipulating the data
var root_node:XMLNode = tree_xml.firstChild;
var num = root_node.childNodes.length;
// loop through each node and do something with the data
for(var i=0; i<num; i++) {
// for example
trace(root_node.childNodes.attributes.directoryName);
}

} else {
// something went wrong
trace("error loading xml");
}

}