Search the site

[emiller]

So I'm really new to actionscript but not so new to flash.

What I'm trying to do is search my site through a swf file. I have an amazing search script in PHP, but I'm not sure how to link the two. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

EriK

[vee]

Its pretty easy to link up with the PHP script usingLoadVars class in AS 2.0. Im just getting into the AS 3 way of doing it the URLLoader class.

AS 2:
look up: Using the LoadVars class
in the Flash Help Menu. It tells you how to send and load. You will probably be accessing a function from PHP.

[evride]

create a button with and instance name of search and an input textbox with a var of search_string (it would be in the properties panel.

search.onRelease = function(){
var search_site:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
search_site.words = search_string;
search_site.onLoad = function(success){
if(success){
trace(search_site.res);
}
}
search_site.sendAndLoad("script.php", search_site, "POST");



search_string = $_POST['words'];
//notice that the posted var was the one attached to search_site loadvar in flash
//now to send vars to flash all you have to do is print
//make sure there is only one print statement

print"&res=Im sending data back to flash. it will be attached to search_site loadvar and have the name i defined here which is res";