here's a small update to my progress. I've discovered that Flash 8 allows for setting a security parmater that overrides the Flash Player security model. I'm faced with the possibility of the kiosk that I'm working on being deployed at multiple sites not knowing their IP addresses. So this is perfect.
System.security.allowDomain("*"); overrides the Flash Player security model! for crossing domains! great for this. and I'm not worried about information sensitivity.
I've run into another problem however. I'm not a php programmer, and have just started to touch the stuff. I've been using this script to output to an XML file that flash can read. <?php $files = array();
$handle = opendir("dir/dir");
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
if($file != "." && $file != "..") {
$files[] = $file;
}
}
closedir($handle);
echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n";
echo "<images>\n";
for($i=0; $i< count($files); $i++){
echo "<img>" . $files[$i] . "</img>";
echo "\n";
}
echo "\n";
echo "</images>\n";
/*echo "&files=" . implode("|", $files);*/
?>
the problem is that it spits them out, out of order. I'm sure that php has some handy means by which to add them in alphabetical order. I'm trying to figure it out.