Question

I’m working on a project in AS3 that connects to a PHP file. I need everything done dynamically so i need a way to get the document_root in flash, like i would in php ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];).

is this possible? any idea how?

cheers

Answer 1

Could just parse $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] into the SWF via FlashVars.

<object width="" height="">
    <param name="flashvars" value="docroot=<?php echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; ?>" />
    <embed width="" height="" src="file.swf?docroot=<?php echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; ?>" />
</object>

And then in AS3:

var parsed:Object = root.loaderInfo.parameters;
var docRoot:String = parsed.docroot;

// do stuff with docRoot