dynamic image slider

[shakesula]

I have a client that wants an image scroller, and they want the ability to upload new images without altering the flash file.

I was looking at this image scroller, and I'm guessing its probably dynamic:
http://www.expressfashion.com/style/casual_scene/looks_m.jsp?navid=1.1.2.2.1.0

Would it be possible to build a scroller like this one that would be dynamic, and if so, how would i script that?

[cobo]

of course it´s possible... :D

script what? the server side php scripts or the scrolling?

cobo

[pdechery]

Hi,

Am I lucky or what? This thread matches perfectly with what I was desesperatly trying to achieve, with no sucess...

Cobo, could you please explain us something about the (action) scripting that make possible to those images be replaced dinamically?

Thanks,

Pierre

[cobo]

if you are pulling the images out of a database you have to code a php wich output the links with echo();
it should look something like: pic1=http://www.yourdomain.com/yourPic1.jpg&pic2=http://www.yourdomain.com/yourPic2.jpg... and so on

in flash you just create an instance of a loadVars Object and parse all the data...
thats it... ;)

cobo

[pdechery]

Cobo,

Thanks a lot. Actually I already got the php (made by the programming team who I work with), but I´m stuck with the AS part. That´s a little to far from my level in it right now.

But I still would like to understand a little more of it, and if you could go a little deeper and explain that ActionScript for all of us, would be great.

Thanks,

Pierre

[cobo]

hi,

the loadVars Object is very well explained at flash´s intern help function (press F1).

after the object has loaded all data into flash it´s easy to call the different variables...
they will be called with the objects name, for example:

_root.yourLoadVars.yourVariable

at the php file you have to give each variable a kind of index, as i said before: pic1=...&pic2=...&pic3=... and so on
you will also need a variable wich tells you how many entrys exist.
maybe: allDataSend=7

you just have to create a tile with needed information from the db and attach this at runtime, incrementing the data with the index... ;)

cobo

[pdechery]

Cobo,

Thanks a lot again.

I will now carefully read the LoadVars explanation in the help file, like you told. I still don´t get how how a variable turns itself into an image in Flash, but I hope that become clearer soon.

Until the end of the day I´ll be posting here something and I hope this thread continue till I had learned something! It will be a huge step for me.

Thanks,

Pierre

[pdechery]

By the way, anyone know where to find a tutorial abou that scrolling mentioned in the first message in this thread? That is a nice effect, though a little overused.

[cobo]

I still don´t get how how a variable turns itself into an image in Flash, but I hope that become clearer soon.

well a variable never turns into something else then a variable... but a variable could contain a link to an image on your server... ;)

flash will load the picture dynamicly - that means directly from your pic folder on your host...

cobo

[pdechery]

Cobo,

Sorry for the late posting, but I was busy fixing some html and could not drive my attention to Action Script;

Thing is, this (http://www.cta-rj.com.br:8080/villa/portal/index.php) is my project. I hope you can take a look. The little animation on the bottom is where I need to have the images loaded from the database through variables.

I read the LoadVars help and understand a little of it, but I don´t know yet how to make my graphics be replaced by variables, or wathever is the name of that process! :) Can you please help me? I got the fla´s and everything...

Thanks,

Pierre

[cobo]

well... this is a place for people who wants to learn, to show them the right direction... (i know you´re willing to learn).
It´s just that I usualy don´t have the time to do other peoples work (I´m busy at my own projects), but if you post your fla i will have a look at it... ;)

cobo

[pdechery]

Cobo,

Thanks a lot for you support here! I hope that you didn´t get me wrong when I offered my fla´s. Maybe I had been a little abusive, wich is not what I want to be.

Well, actually I think that if I just gave the fla´s to you, and get you to do what I couln´t do myself (supposing you wanted to do that), it would be a little abusive from me, and I would not learn anything (too bad :( ). But at the other way I really would like to learn how to solve that damn thread! So, maybe you could tell me if there is some kind of tutorial about this subject?

But I appreciate your support so far! Thank you!

Pierre

[cobo]

hi...

the code in flash should look similar to this:


stop();
_root.yourLoadVars = new LoadVars(); //create a new loadVars instance
_root.yourLoadVars.load("http://www.yourDomain.com/yourSubdirectory/yourPhpFile.php"); //to Load the data...

_root.yourLoadVars.onLoad = function (success) {
if (success) {
gotoAndPlay(2); //or whatever frame you like
} else {
}
}


afterwards you address the data with _root.yourLoadVars.yourVariable

cobo

[cobo]

I´m sorry but I don´t know tuts for that kind of thing... i also had learned it by trial and error... ;)

cobo

[pdechery]

I... i also had learned it by trial and error... ;) cobo

Well, I guess I´m going to do the same! ;) Which means I´m going to spend some time trying to use and understand your code. I´ll come up here again soon to tell you if I suceeded!

And thanks a lot!

Pierre