Loading external PHP data using URLRequest

Here is roughly how I did that:

http://www.jamesborder.local/URLRequest.php (your url should be wherever your data is)

<?php

// create an array to put your junk in… then put it there
$variablesArray = array();
$variablesArray['var1'] = “foo”;
$variablesArray['var2'] = “bar”;

// let php build a nice string for you
$variablesArrayString = http_build_query($variablesArray);

echo $variablesArrayString;
// var1=foo&var2=bar

?>

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Here is roughly what is in the .fla

// build your request…. your url/file will go here
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“http://www.jamesborder.local/URLRequest.php”);
request.method = URLRequestMethod.GET;

// create
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onCompleteHandler);
loader.load(request);

function onCompleteHandler(event:Event) {

trace(“completeHandler(“+event+”)”);
var var1 = event.target.data.var1;
var var2 = event.target.data.var2;

trace ('variable one: ' + var1);
trace ('variable two: ' + var2);

}