I'm a huge football (soccer) fan and i've owned a few failed forums in my time but now i want to take my knowledge i've gained from past forums and reading around and create a proper news site, not just a forum.

I want it to stand out when compared to the main ones and i think flash is a great way to do this. My question is how would i go about making a site which submits articles? Would i use a mysql database and use php to send the article to it?

Another thing is would this type of website be best done in Flex or Flash? I'm not great with actionscript or graphics but i know flash VERY well, have been playing around with it for about 5 years now so i definatly know what im doing.. whereas i've never really used Flex.

I also want to take into consideration an AIR project which is used with the website and basically notifys the person when a new article has been posted.. could someone point me in the direction of how i would accomplish this?

I'm in no way asking for someone to do this for me, i just need a little help to get me going with it as i've never done something like this before.

I'm hoping to open the site in about a years time so plenty of time to learn how to use flex and get some practise in.

Thanks

At 4/7/08 09:30 AM, Mr-Contradiction wrote:

At 4/7/08 09:27 AM, Grimfenix wrote: Miss a day of lifting

You are a freak. Life is not about exercise, despite what the media tells you.

I bet your fat.

Really, really fat.

Plus i like how you assume that because he want's to miss one day of school he's not intelligent. THEN YOU MENTION MEDIA?! Medias the one that tells you to go through school, get good grades and you'll be earning loads. I find this more ridiuclous than exercise.. i'd learn a hell of a lot more at home on my own than at school in maths learning something that i'll never use or would want to use in the real world. Whereas at home using the power of the internet i can learn anything related to the real world, learn something that my school doesn't provide me which i may want to go into as a career.

Pngt.

"Mum i'm not going school".

That's about it. I'm in 6th form now (optional to do) so i can pretty much do what i like and if i get kicked out, that's my fault.

Obviously i don't do what i like though... i do want my a levels.

This may be a ridiculous question so sorry in advance. I want real answers and not 12 year olds going OMFG NOOB over and over.

Right i'm just curious on how popular sites that sell products on a big scale store their products for their site. For example HMV, play.com, ebuyer ect.. how do store the information for their products? I know it's hard to say without actually knowing but i'd like some intellegent guesses, would they store it in XML... maybe on a database? Maybe something else?

Thanks in advance.

Just curious on how the huge companies manage their sites. Also do you think i'd get the answer from actually asking them directly though email or something? I see no reason why they can't give out that information but maybe they wont for some reason.

At 4/6/08 09:23 AM, GustTheASGuy wrote: Yes we got that already and PHP or AIR are entirely unrelated to what you're asking. Why don't you actually look at the documentation of the class.

How exactly? AIR is completely related, read my first post. It's going to be an AIR application.

At 4/5/08 08:04 PM, GustTheASGuy wrote: Again, sockets are unrelated to HTTP requests. Use the URLLoader class to load any data.

Is there a way of getting the xml file through flash alone using URLLoader? This is going to be a AIR application so i can't use PHP scripts.

Can anybody help me out here?

At 4/5/08 05:45 PM, FlashK33per wrote: Hey all,

I just started working on my first flash and i have a little question/problem.
In one of my baggrounds i've used alot of text. This has a very negativ impact on the file size, considering that is only being used as bagground. So my question is: will converting it to graphics decrease the size?

Flashk33per

Try, save it as a separate file and compare the file size.

Converting to a graphic won't i don't think but breaking them apart till their just graphics should do.

Right what i'm trying to do is have a swf file (eventually be a AIR application) which can retrieve data from a XML file on my host. I literally just have a host which i run a personal forum (no server) and minimal knowledge about sockets.

So if someone could point me in the direction where i can find some tutorials or something that'd help, or even better them personally explain what i need to do to achieve this, that was i can ask questions if i get stuck at any point.

I'm not asking someone to litrally explain how to make this, i want to know roughly what i need to do with regards to getting a server set up and then how to use that server to retrieve the XML file.

Thanks in advance!

At 4/5/08 01:57 PM, DarkMana wrote: An AIR application has all of the functionality, and more, of any RIA -- why not use PHP?

From adobe labs:

"Dynamic pages such as ColdFusion and PHP pages won't run in Adobe AIR. The runtime only works with HTML and JavaScript."

I think i'll make a new topic because this is a completely different issue now...

Oh i see, well i was hoping to convert the program into an AIR application so i guess URL loader wouldn't work as it requires php scripts.

I guess i need to actually put a server up then lol.

I'm having no luck connecting to my site.... I must be misunderstanding something, im new to all this.

Basically i want a swf which is on my computer and can access a XML file which i'll host on my website... any idea where i'm going wrong?

At 4/5/08 12:16 PM, Moonkey wrote: AS3 right? You should just be able to use mySocket.connected
That's only once you're up and running though. No point using it until you've heard back from one of the events.

So,

var mySocket:Socket = new Socket("http://www.sitedomain.com", 80);
mySocket.addEventListener(Event.CONNECT, connectSuccess);
mySocket.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.I O_ERROR, connectFailure);

function connectSuccess(event:Event) {
trace("Connected");
}

function connectFailure(event:IOErrorEvent) {
trace("Connection failed");
}

Thanks! That's what i was looking for, although i think i might have found a better solution.

onConnect() returns a boolean as far as im aware depending if connection was successful or not. I'll give this a try first and if it doesn't work i'll use yours.

Thanks!

At 4/5/08 10:53 AM, Moonkey wrote: If you're using as3, Sockets will dispatch either a Event.CONNECT or IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR depending on whether connect() worked or not.

Well i did this:

var mySocket:Socket = new Socket("http://www.sitedomain.com", 80);

Of course i used a working domain, i used my own personal website to use as a server.

As far as im away 80 is the port for HTTP.

What do i do after that? I thought that it would connect automatically so is there a way to check then i can use an if statement to display either online or offline.

Thanks

I was thinking more connecting to a server... if a connection is made then it's connected, if not then it'll display "offline".

Would there be a way to test the connection of the socket every 5 seconds say?

Is there a way to check if someone's internet is on or their computer has any connectivity to the internet through flash? I want to display "Online" if their online and if not display "Offline".

Thanks in advance

Can anybody help me with this =[

Actually i tried again and don't think the functions working. Got this in the output box:

Error opening URL '(the RS link i put in)'
Loaded undefined

Hmmmmm

Yeah it's a text box set to input box. It isn't rendering html, i ticked render text as html and the trace was the same.

Also i used your file_get_contents and did this:

var url = file_get_contents(" ** i used a working RS link ** ");

if(url.indexOf("You have requested")){
trace("yes");
} else {
trace("no");
}

I read that X.indexOf(Y) is the same as strpos(X,Y) but on my PHP one strpos(url, "You have requested") returns true and on flash url.indexOf("You have requested") is returning false... i think the file_get_contents is working the same though.

Right i have a input box with var as links. Just to test i did this:

var g = links.split(" ");

Then run it and when i put a b c d e i thought i was going to get "a,b,c,d,e" which would be right, instead i got:

<TEXTFORMAT,LEADING="2"><P,ALIGN="LEFT">
<FONT,FACE="Times,New,Roman",SIZE="12",C OLOR="#000000",LETTERSPACING="0",KERNING ="0"></FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT ,LEADING="2"><P,ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT,FACE=
"Times,New,Roman",SIZE="12",COLOR="#0000 00",LETTERSPACING="0",KERNING="0">a,b,c,
d,e</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT>

How do i get rid of the HTML to leave me with the right thing?

Thanks in advance

Thanks, i found a few of the others but couldn't find out how to do the one you posted, so thanks a lot!

Will have a play with what i've got.

I'm in need of some help. I just wrote a script to check if rapidshare links are active or not. I wrote it in PHP and it works fine using a HTML form with text area for the links and a button.

The thing is i want the same thing in flash but i'm unsure of how to do the same thing in AS or if i can run the script some how through the swf.

Heres the PHP code:

<?php

if(isset($_POST['submit'])){

$links = $_POST['links'];
$link = explode("\n", $links);

foreach($link as $url){

if(strstr($url, "rapidshare.com")){
	$var = file_get_contents($url);
	
    if(strpos($var,"You have requested")){
        echo $url . " was found!<br>";
    }
	
    if(strpos($var,"File not found.")){
        echo $url . " was not found!<br>";  
    }  
	    
    if(strpos($var," deleted.")){
        echo $url . " has been deleted!<br>";
    }
}
}
}
?>

How would i use this/rewrite this in AS to make it work in flash.

First line would be a simple on release on a button, after that im pretty much stuck. I found a explode function on the web which does the same thing but strpos, strstr and get_file_contents i don't know how to replace...

Thanks in advance

At 7/9/07 03:42 PM, Cinjection wrote:

At 7/9/07 12:18 PM, Muncey wrote: I must be missing something...

Are you sure that you seeded the random number?

t_time seeder = time(null);
srand( (unsigned int) seeder);

for (int c = 0; c < 100; c++){

cout << (rand % 100) +1<<'/n'

}

That code should generate 100 random numbers between 1 and 100.

Thanks!

oh no .h

No problem now!

Think that answers my question :)

Thanks!

Well i went on a flash based forum and it was realllllllllllllly slow compared to normal forums made in PHP and stuff.

Are big projects such as a forum software faster in PHP and stuff or can flash make it just as fast?

By "fast" i mean noticeably the speed was different. The forum i went on was increadibly slow and would take about 30 seconds to load each page, whereas take the NG board for example, i can switch between posts and forums in seconds.

Firstly, graphics.. you need to sort the graphics out big time.
Second, animation.. you need more animation. The best flash sites use so much animation it's mind blowing. Simple roll overs can be done using javascript and stuff in normal websites, you need to make your site have a reason for using flash, make it do something that can't be done in normal websites (or very had to do).

That's about it really.

Ok i made a test project with a test .cpp in the source files folder.

I got the error...

fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'iostream.h': No such file or directory

How come it doesn't include them? Do i need headers or what?

(very new to C++ as you can tell)

I have.. or at least i think i have?

I dont have a "project" i don't think, i used a different program to compile and i simply opened the .cpp file, which it think is a source code? Which goes in the project?

Ill try making a project then make a source code from there...

At 7/9/07 12:44 PM, seel wrote: Press F5.

*sits hitting F5 repeatedly*

Im getting nothing lol

Also a way of executing would be nice.. i can't find that either.