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[corey szopinski]

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.

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:

> Yury Rush wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>  
>> 
> 
> 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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