I would advise you to use the Services (http://drupal.org/project/services) module when handling Flash integration in Drupal; when using the Drupal Form API you get a lot of safety mechanisms that are involved that ensured you can submit the data you submitted, as well as that data is properly formatted. Now you're trying to use a Flash form; having a user service that is running in the background to handle your updates using JSON for example may be a better way to do it. You have a lot of tutorials about Flash/Services integration laying around. On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Rob Koberg <rob@koberg.com> wrote:
Hi,
Unless I am doing something incorrect (spent the day on it), I can't get legacy Flash (swf) http form posts to be handled with Drupal. For example, we have a custom swf avatar builder. The swf, onsubmit, does a POST with a single parameter. (I don't have the source, but could legally decompile it and add extra fields(?) for the form identifiers, if that could help. I know less Flash than PHP)
I was thinking the easiest way to go would be to make a simple interface:
$DRUPAL/avatar.php
<?php
if (!empty($_POST)) {
require_once './includes/bootstrap.inc'; drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);
$account = $GLOBALS['user']; dd('save $account: ' . $account);
$avatar_xml = $_POST['avatarXML'];// it is url encoded dd('save $avatar_xml: ' . $avatar_xml);
} else {
header('HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed');
}
I get the log entries written and the parameter value, but I don't get a page user object.
What I want to do in this case is save a single profile field value, 'profile_avatar_xml' which is added at registration time with default data. How can I get to the 'global $user;' (which I tried) object so I can set: $user->profile_avatar_xml = $_POST['avatarXML'];
thanks, -Rob