No worries– hope that you had a good weekend. Thank you for the clarification. I understand what you mean now. I don’t have an AIR project, so that’s good. I’ll have to check, but I probably use relative URLs to call the php. So I’ll have to re-write those as absolute URLs. I’ll contact you in a few days (offline), as you suggested. Again, thanks Matt. You’ve been really cool helping me out.

In Flex, you can compile an executable that runs outside of the browser
using Adobe AIR. This object is not embeddable in the browser and won’t work
with SwfObj. That is what I mean by the standalone executable. It isn’t an
issue of the objects you’ve included in your Flex project, just how you are
compiling it.

As far as using php code, the problem is if you are using relative urls to
call the php file from within your Flex code. The way WordPress sets up urls
makes it difficult for Flex to find the php file if it is a relative
url. Contact
me offline for more info about this, as
it’s a bit of a long explanation.

Thanks so much for taking the time to help me. I really, really appreciate it. I just want to clarify a couple of points in your reply:

I’m not sure what you mean by “standalone executables aren’t embeddable”. For example, imagine that I have a Flex 3 panel with a dataGrid in it. And I’ve got a ComboBox to choose which data to show in the grid. When the Flex app opens I have a default in the ComboBox selected. So, the table is filled with default data pulled from the mySQL database. In this example, is it a standalone executable?

If I watch a Youtube video in a Flash Player I have to click the “Play” button in the player to start it. But, in my case, Flex goes ahead and retrieves data for the default table when it starts? I’m also thinking about using a Flex treemap with default data and a Google Map that uses Flex 3 for displaying data.

I guess that in a sense Flex auto executes– meaning that I don’t have to click a button for a panel or someother component to appear. It runs when the page loads.

Also, I didn’t quite understand your point regarding php code and the mySQL database. When I connect to the mySQL database, I use a php file that contains the select statement. It uses the variable that the Flex3 function sent and puts it in the select statement. So, I use a php file to pull the data from the database and return it to Flex. I use php file that’s similar to the one in Mihai’s tutorial: http://corlan.org/2008/11/13/flex-and-php-remoting-with-zend-amf/ The php is about halfway down the page.

I really hope that I can use your plugin in my project. Apologies for all of the questions. I’m still learning.

Thank you!

-Chris

These are good questions. As long as your Flex 3 apps are compiled as .swf
files, then they can be embedded into your WordPress pages using the SwfObj
plugin. Standalone executables aren’t embeddable.

As far as embedding it, all you need to do is install the plugin, then on
your post page you will see a little ‘f’ icon. Click on that and it will pop
up a screen for uploading your .swf file and embedding it onto the current
page. You can also upload the file to your server and then manually enter
the shortcode into the post if you prefer to do it that way.

Your Flex app will still have the same access to the MySQL database. The
only caveat is if it depends on server side php code. It doesn’t sound like
this is the case, though, so you should be good to go.

Let me know if you have any other questions or if there are any issues with
the plugin.

Thanks,
mattc

Your plug-in for embedding flash in WordPress sounds really cool. I’ve got a few questions, so please bear with me. I’m a newbie.

I’ve just started using WordPress. (I know Flex 3/ Actionscript. Unfortunately, I don’t know javascript.) I’d like to embed Flex 3 apps in my WordPress 3.1 page. Would it be possible to do so using your plug-in?

If so, can you point me to a tutorial as to how to do so? Or an example somewhere?

Do I need to change the default Flex HTML wrapper to use swfObject? (The default wrapper doesn’t use swfobject).

Or do I simply download your plug-in, put the Flex app on the server, and add your embed tags to the WordPress page? As I understand it from your post, WordPress already has swfobject included, so I don’t need to download it. (I only need your plug-in.)

My Flex app pulls data from a mySQL database. So, for example, if the user clicks button X or selects X in a ComboBox, they get different info than if they selected something else. Currently, I’ve got my Flex apps working as standalone Flex pages. If I embed them in WordPress pages, do I have to change the way that they connect to the database? I’m thinking in terms of the sending a variable to the database. So, would a remoting function like this still work?

public function getData(series:uint):void {

myRemote.getMyData(series);

}

Or, do I need to re-work it somehow to “escape” the WordPress page? Any suggestions?

Again, thank you for your excellent work.

-Chris

I’m guessing this swf is some kind of photo gallery/slideshow. Usually the problem is that the .swf is looking for data in the directory of the page’s url, which is not where the images are on the server. Most Flash slideshow files can be given a parameter to tell them the url of the images or xml config file.

Not sure if any of that makes sense, but I’ll send you an email and hopefully we can figure out what is going on with your page.