: Can anyone help me on how to send information and get reply back from an asp server script to a flash movie? What should i write on my asp server script?
: Lets say you wanted to call an ASP to check if a product existed on a DB and if it did you wanted to return the Description of that product :-
1.Write your asp to do the lookup and retrieve the description etc for a product based on an incoming querystring. Make sure that your asp writes nothing out except a return string in the format of Field=value&field2=value so your output string from asp might resemble found=false,desc=test%20Product - you can test you asp in any browser to make sure that it works and that this is all that is returned.
2.In you Actionscript write
Loadvariables("HTTP://yourhttpaddress/aspName.asp?Product="+_root.Product,"_root"); on say frame (keyFramE) 1.
3.Leave Frame 2 blank but make it a keyframe
4.Make frame 3 a keyframe and type the following actionscript
if (_root.Found=="true") {
gotoAndPlay("Found")
}
elseif (_root.Found=="false") {
gotoAndPlay("NotFound")
}
else {gotoandPlay(2);}
What this does is loop between frame 2 and 3 until it receives a response back from the asp. All variables read in from the asp are referencable by the variable name preceed by _root, hence _root.Found
Also if you setup a dynamic text field on a frame and give it a variable name of Description then that field will automatically contain the description returned from the ASP.
I think you should be able to follow this example if you have reasonable knowledge of both ASP and Actionscript. Hope it helps.
