Generate Random Quotes with Flash 5 and PHP

This tutorial will show you how to grab a quote, at random,  from a text file using PHP, and display the result within Flash

In this tutorial we are going to look at how to make a random quote generator using PHP and Flash You can download the source file here If you open the source folder you will see 4 files. quotes.php quotes.txt quote.fla quote.swf Open quote.fla you will see the movie has 2 layers Both layers only have 1 frame The actions layer contains all the actions required to load the variable The quotebox layer contain the box the text will appear in. Double click on Frame1 in the actions layer the actionscript panel will open and you will seethe following code. loadVariablesNum ("quotes.php?noCache="+Math.floor(random(1000000)/random(1000)), 0); Let's look the code loadVariablesNum This simply tell flash to load the variables The next line is the important part so we will break it down ("quotes.php?noCache="+Math.floor(random(1000000)/random(1000)), 0); quotes.php This is the file to load the variable from ?noCache="+Math.floor(random(1000000)/random(1000)), 0); This code generates a random number to attach to he variable call so that you don't call the same file twice. Well you do actually call the same file every time, but the URL is different so the browser wont cache it) Thanks to Jesse at www.actionscripts.org for his help on this. So we have set up the actions to call the file which holds the variable but how do we display it   next >>>