Ming - PHP Flash support

[AgentHi5]

Any chance on getting the PHP Ming library installed or is this something I should do myself using shell access? Thanks.

Agent hi5

[mresell]

I don't think that is somethin you can use here. I doubt they will install a beta c++ library. If you can't do it on your site and include paths your probably out of luck. It would have to be really stable for them to do that.

[Silverbug]

hmm dynamic flash swf's, neet.

[mresell]

It's interesting, but seems like it also *may* be resource intensive.

[AgentHi5]

Thanks for the responses. Essentially, I'm looking for a Flash-remoting solution which will allow me to create a Flash "movie" using dynamic data from an MySQL database.

Anyone have a solution for that in this hosting environment? Peace.

Agent Hi5

[keidsjedo]

AgentHi5, I hope you found your solution by now. BTW, the CF servers have flash remoting enabled.

I was searching through the forums to see if anyone has gotten Ming working here at Vortech. This was the only thread that appeared. (The reason I awakened an old thread).

There is a windows DLL at http://www.kromann.info/php4/php_ming.dll. For unix, you'll need to build it from the source. I haven't been able to compile it successfully. Apparently, there are some problems with the code working on FreeBSD.

[craigdunlop]

ooohhh, a dynamic swf building tool sounds nice to me... :-) I assume this would do something similar to what the now defunct Flash Generator used to do. Does Macromedia provde a similar tool anymore?

Flash, being open-source (- 1 version) I'd assume you could write out the binary file as you want it. Or, depending on what you want it to do - produce styles for your swfs that dynamically build elements as they go... Not always a good solution to true dynamic files I guess...

[keidsjedo]

Originally Posted by craigdunlop

ooohhh, a dynamic swf building tool sounds nice to me... :-) I assume this would do something similar to what the now defunct Flash Generator used to do. Does Macromedia provde a similar tool anymore?

Ming is a Flash creation tool/library. Generator was probably more of a Flash element replacer (it required templates), but they both do server-side creation of Flash files.

Macromedia's new Flash generation tool is Flex. You can use Flex JSP tags to use it with CF, but I doubt it's installed here. There are many SWF generation alternatives, but Ming is the only open-source one standing (leaning?) that runs on unix afaik. Swift Generator is a popular one and so is JGenerator. JGenerator may soon be Macromedia JGenerator MX. If you do a search, there are a few free ActiveX components available too.

BTW, if anyone knows where to get Swift Generator binaries/source for FreeBSD, please share!

Originally Posted by craigdunlop

Flash, being open-source (- 1 version) I'd assume you could write out the binary file as you want it. Or, depending on what you want it to do - produce styles for your swfs that dynamically build elements as they go... Not always a good solution to true dynamic files I guess...

Yep, you could write your own. That's the essence of Ming. OpenSWF has the specs.

[mdallarosa]

Has anyone found a Flash Generator solution to be hosted on Vortech Servers?

A customer has requested me to install MING libraries but as noted in this thread it is not possible.

[Silverbug]

I know this is a fairly old thread, but did anyone get this going on windows?
or does anyone know how to get the size of the swf file (width and height) via php?