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[Phillip Powell]

corey szopinski wrote:

>Phil-
>
>I think you¹re best bet is to have your SWF¹s pull content in at runtime
>using XML or loadVars (urlencoded name/value pairs). Putting PHP into a SWF
>doesn't make much sense since the server won¹t parse PHP unless it¹s a text
>file with a .php extension.
>
>I also think you¹ll find that decompiling .swfs is not an exact science. In
>fact, I¹d be surprised if anyone has decompiled a swf into a usable FLA. You
>might get away with pulling AS out as Yury suggested, but the simplest
>answer is to get the original FLA¹s, tweak them to pull in content at
>runtime, then output clean swfs.
>  
>

That was my initial idea, considering the original web designer has the 
original .fla files (I hope), however, he has, to date, not contacted 
any of us (he hasn't contacted the customer in months and won't return 
phone calls nor emails apparently), so there might not be any way to 
obtain the original .fla files as I would like.  And my knowledge of 
loadVars is 0.00%, XML only slightly more so, so for the sake of 
expediency I felt it be best for me for now to build a PHP CMA that 
would allow for extraction of dynamic data into usable external files 
for inclusion by the modified SWF files.

Tragically, the original designer lied to the customer about the SWF's 
dynamic and scalable capabilities (he hardcoded text right into the SWF 
itself!) so this is not for me going to be an easy science to rebuild 
dynamically (customer wants the same L&F but with dynamic and 
customer-content-management capabilities).

But cool, I won't have to decompile the SWF files, *whew* thanx!

Phil

>We use this architecture quite a bit (look at the Whitney.org homepage for
>an example). You¹ll see that most of the content is held in external text or
>xml docs. The ³shell² has the loader and the graphics, but the dynamic
>content is loaded separately.
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>-corey
>
>
>On 9/7/04 5:32 PM, "Phillip Powell" <phillip.powell at adnet-sys.com> wrote:
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>>Yury Rush wrote:
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>>>You need something to rip the AS out -- yes possible.
>>>http://www.sothink.com/flashdecompiler/
>>>
>>>You can edit it ( add the php right inside it ) then publish to swf.
>>> 
>>>
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>>>
>>Would I actually publish back to swf?  That would be very impractical
>>since the customer wants the ability to edit and delete text on the fly,
>>in short, a CMA.  He wants to edit things like news, events, etc. and be
>>able to see the changes immediately upon his Flash-encoded website pages.
>>
>>That's why I wanted to ask first before going down the wrong direction.
>>
>>Phil
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>DOMANI STUDIOS
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>Corey Szopinski
>Technology Director
>   
>corey at domanistudios.com
>55 Washington St. Suite 822
>Brooklyn, NY 11201
>212.920.8135  x116 
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