Problems with PHP and Arrays

[lakoutan]

Hi,

I have this minikarting game and there is ghostcar showing the best lap. Ghostcar have 3 arrays: x_pos, y_pos and rotation. I use MySQL database to save these arrays.

how Can I receive arrays from PHP? I have tried to print variables in String and split that in Flash but that doesn't work becouse it's too slow. There are about 1200 values and LoadVariablesNum works just fine when I transfer Strings to flash, but String.split function is so slow

You can find this half-done minikarting game:
http://www.minikarting.com (finnish language verion )

Lauri

[lakoutan]

Does anyone know better way to receive arrays to flash?
(than changing String to Array with String.split-function)
Please help me if you know!

Lauri

[Jesse]

The String.split() that comes with Flash is slow but you can overload it with Branden Hall's version which is about 40% faster (try searching these forums... or asking on Flashkit.com... or www.figleaf.com which is Branden's site). Best alternative would be to use PHP or some such to write your data in XML format, which is native to arrays. You'd have to learn/know XML though.

[Jesse]

search the forums for 'branden Hall' and checkout the thread called 'string into array'

[lakoutan]

that helped me a lot, THANK YOU! Now it's quick enough...