Comments on: AS3 Image Batch Loader with PHP Directory Browsing

By: Stephen Braitsch

Stephen Braitsch — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:37:56 +0000

You are welcome to use any of my code on this site in your commercial projects unless noted otherwise at the top of the class file.

By: Lauris

Lauris — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:15:58 +0000

Hi! This is a nice utility and it would be really great to use it in my projects. Stephen, please advise if it is allowed to use your class in my commercial projects.

Thanks in advance
Lauris

By: vinzcelavi

vinzcelavi — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:07:36 +0000

Not yet check this out but it looks really fine !!

Thanks a lot for your work, I find out your trick in less than 10 seconds on Google !

Web ressources is wonderful

By: Stephen Braitsch

Stephen Braitsch — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:37:18 +0000

There currently is no limit to the number of images the script can upload. You may want to extend the class and write a handler that waits for one image to finish uploading before starting the next in a queue.

By: Ally

Ally — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:55:49 +0000

Hi, I was just wondering if you can view more then three images at a time? I tested it out on my server and even though it would say it has loaded all 6 images, it only displays three of them.

Thanks

By: Stephen Braitsch

Stephen Braitsch — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:19:46 +0000

Make sure Apache is running and change your path from ‘php/directory-reader.php’ to ‘http://localhost:8888/php/directory-reader.php” and you should be able to test from within the Flash IDE.

By: sideDoor

sideDoor — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:39:10 +0000

@backdoor

Yeah, hehe, thanks, I’m running Apache 2 and the rest of the deal…I can test this package locally, successfully , but in a browser only…my problem was testing it from within the Flash IDE (Ctrl-Enter): as mentioned, I get this message:

[ HTTPRequest ] : Setting Request.URL To : php/directory-reader.php

But before gumming-up this post any further, I’ll first read-up on sending and receiving variables from Flash to php in AS3.

Before, in AS2, I was using LoadVars to pass variables to and from php scripts, and was able to test these scripts from within the IDE, but anyway, I’ll read up on this, thanks!

Stephen, again, thanks for sharing!

By: BackDoor

BackDoor — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:47:19 +0000

Mr. Sidedoor!

Try downloading WAMP (as long as you are windows based) or some other server solution (like LAMP if you are linux based) and try working from its www folder.

That way all php and other server scripts will work when you are testing your FlashMovie locally.

By googling WAMP you should have no difficulty finding the correct page, and it’s as easy as download-install-action.
(it also includes loads of info/tuts etc.. for peeps who are into screwing around with servers, -not me!)

Yours Truly
Mr. BackDoor.

By: sideDoor

sideDoor — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:18:59 +0000

Great work! Again, this is a really handy approach. I got this to work locally, and I could see it being valuable in many situations.

My only reservation in using php in this case is that it seems from within the Flash IDE, I cannot test the movie and call the php script. In this case, I get this message in the output panel:

[ HTTPRequest ] : Setting Request.URL To : php/directory-reader.php

And the movie won’t run beyond this point, which means it makes it difficult to develop a project while using this method if you’re testing your swf from within the Flash IDE. Instead, it seems you’d have to test your development in your browser, which makes debugging maybe not so efficient. Or maybe I’m missing something…

But the alternative is to return to loading expected images from XML data…hmm…

Thanks again, I’ll goof around with this package.

By: Stephen Braitsch

Stephen Braitsch — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:19:53 +0000

Ah, linked fixed. Sorry about that.

By: sideDoor

sideDoor — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:55:59 +0000

Thanks so much! This is a great utility!

Oops, it appears the link to the sample files is not finding the zip file…I’ll check back later…

Thanks Mr Braitsch!

By: Stephen Braitsch

Stephen Braitsch — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:49:52 +0000

@Sidedoor,

I just updated this post with a much cleaner implementation than before with more comments to help you understand what is going on. Try the new zip and let me know if you have any problems.

By: sideDoor

sideDoor — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:21:23 +0000

Hey Mr Braitsch,

Thanks so much for this class…this is great work and super handy!

Trying to implement this, I’m getting this 1010 Error:

TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.
at com.viewi::body/onImagesLoaded()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at com.quietless.bitmap::ImageBatchLoader/checkImageQueue()
at com.quietless.bitmap::ImageBatchLoader/ioErrorHandler()

I’m wondering if it’s because the swf can’t find the php file, or the php file can’t find the image directory, err, I’m not sure…