Comments on: How to connect WordPress and Flash – part #2

By: Feeleep

Feeleep — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:40:28 +0000

Benjamin, will you be able to put AS3 version on your own server so other people can download it too? Thanks!

By: benjamin

benjamin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:39:11 +0000

Hello, I have an as3 version of it..
you didn’t know because my comments where stuck in your trash because of bad web adress i wrote (.xom instead of .com)

I’ve ported this to as3 few times ago.

I can send it to you

By: chris

chris — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:26:50 +0000

Ok thanks so much, i sent you a message through your contact page (probably same mail as this :)).

By: Feeleep

Feeleep — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:30:47 +0000

Honestly spoken I didn’t make any tests to see whether the script works for AS3 but I guess it doesn’t due to a little bit different syntax. Anyway, I would love to see how your ’slide_serve.php’ looks like coz I think there must be something wrong.
Chris, you can drop me a message, zip up ’slide_serve.php’ and I let you know my opinion.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:33:16 +0000

Thanks for your help,
I managed to work it out.

Lastly, im using as3 and when i try to pull in the xml it crashes because it’s not properly formatted. I don’t know php very much, not at all actually but I managed to format it the way i wanted it, except, here’s the problem with the formatting:

in the slide_serve.php when calling “require_once( ‘../../../wp-config.php’ );” it automatically spits out “http://www.mydomain.com”*amount of entries. For example, if i have 5posts in my blog it will spit out “http://www.mydomain.comhttp://www.mydomain.comhttp://www.mydomain.comhttp://www.mydomain.comhttp://www.mydomain.com”.

So my question is, since i have no idea about anything php related, is there any way to get rid of this? I simply want the xml echoed out.

Hoping there is a quick solution :)

Thanks for any help in this,
Chris

By: Feeleep

Feeleep — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:19:42 +0000

Yeap, ’slide_serve.php’ by default MUST share location with Flash file (SWF) which checks its own path in file system on server – according to which PHP file is found.

However, if you take a look at FLA, line number 53 which reads:


extXML.load( myloc + "/slide_serve.php" );

…you can easily change location/path to ’slide_serve.php’ manually.
Hopefully it helps!

By: chris

chris — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:21:50 +0000

Hi,
I want to locate my swf file in the root of my wordpress blog not in the template dir.

But for some reason, i keep getting errors in flash when i try to call the “slide_serve.php” from anywhere outside the template dir. Does the swf have to live in the same dir as the slide_serve.php file to get access?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Chris

By: André Beltrame

André Beltrame — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:31:50 +0000

Great tutorial…
im waiting now the next.. wordpress is a best cms for me… this integration is perfect… many thanks for it!

By: Feeleep

Feeleep — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:25:47 +0000

You must definitely know category ID if you are about to pull posts from certain category. So the query_posts() call should read something like


query_posts( 'showposts=' . $num_of_posts_to_display . '&post_type=post&post_status=publish&order=DESC&cat=YOUR_CAT_ID' );

Dont forget to replace YOUR_CAT_ID with numeric value! For more information please refer to http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts. Hopefully it helps!

By: jlo

jlo — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:45:44 +0000

is there and easy way to specify which category the php file pulls from in word press? I have tried looking up the category ID but that seems to not work or if i specify the direct name of the category