Send an object to a php script

[daveystew]

Originally Posted by xxneon

just an FYI.. you can not send an array object as it is to a php script .. you need to have all your values in one long string ..

Ah, Ok - my fault - I'm coming back to Flash after about a year's break in PHP!

Originally Posted by xxneon

and then in your php you will have a variable passed called record1 .. that you will have to split the string .. so you can get each part of your record that you want to save..

Not so.

If you pass the string like this:

"data[0][first_name]=Dave&data[0][last_name]=Stewart&data[1][first_name]=Joe&data[1][last_name]=Bloggs"

PHP should read the string as a native multidimensional array:

Array
(
    [data] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [first_name] => Dave
                    [last_name] => Stewart
                )

            [1] => Array
                (
                    [first_name] => Joe
                    [last_name] => Bloggs
                )

        )

)

At least it does with HTML - you'll have to check with the Flash thing, but I don't see how the PHP would receive it any differently anyway. You may have to use GET not POST though (or you may not. I haven't tested it)

[daveystew]

(Duplicate post)

[xxneon]

well the problem is you can't have a loadvars send a string like yours using variable value pairs .. unless you use GET .. and i think that would get ugly as a GET query string ..

[daveystew]

Originally Posted by xxneon

i think that would get ugly as a GET query string ..

Does that matter? No one's going to see it.

Just iterate through to get the string:

var userArray:Array = new Array; // you need an array in this case
userArray[0] ={first_name:"john", family_name:"smith",age:25}; // you need correct object syntax using {} curly braces
userArray[1] ={first_name:"jane", family_name:"brown",age:27};


function arrayToGET(arr:Array, name:String){
    var arrArray    :Array  = new Array()
    var arrObject   :Array
    var strObject   :String
    for(var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++){
        arrObject = new Array()
        for(var p in arr[i]){
            arrObject.push(name+ '[' +i+ '][' +p+ ']=' +arr[i][p])
            }
        strObject   = arrObject.join('&')
        arrArray.push(strObject)
        }
    return arrArray.join('&')
    }
    
trace(arrayToGET(userArray, 'userArray'))

userArray[0][first_name]=john&userArray[0][family_name]=smith&userArray[0][age]=25&userArray[1][first_name]=jane&userArray[1][family_name]=brown&userArray[1][age]=27

[xxneon]

i guess the only issue is depending on the amount of info sent via GET.. it does have a limit i think.. correct?

[daveystew]

Yeah, I think there is. A google later and:

If you are using the GET method, you are limited to a maximum of 2,048 characters, minus the number of characters in the actual path.

However, the POST method is not limited by the size of the URL for submitting name/value pairs. These pairs are transferred in the header and not in the URL.