Formating Dynamic Text

[Shawn Northrop]

I just read an article on kirupa.com about incorporating mySQL and PHP with flash. I am dynamically loading conent into a flash movie and am not sure how to format. In my php code i have:

$y = "";
foreach($result as $x){
$y = $y . $x['firstname'] . " ";
}
print "myVar = $y";

In short $result is a query and $y is the value i will be passing along to flash.
the statement $y = $y . $x['firstname'] . " "; puts a space between each name that is passed along. I am trying to find ways of formating $y before sending, i.e. line breaks, bold, italics, color.... etc. In this example i may want the names to be listed on top of each other rather than with a space between them.

I am able to set initial values (other than line breaks (carrage return)) in my flash movie for the content that is dynamically loaded. Is it possible to set formating through my script?

[koolaid82]

This does not answer the question you asked, but i load .txt files dynamically like this. Just figured i would share couldn't hurt. Sorry i can't answer your question specifically.

////myTextBox represents the instance name of your dynamic text box the semi collen strict data types it to TextField (all that means is it tells flash what it is)

var myTextBox:TextField;
myTextBox.text = "Please Wait... Loading..."

//// declare and instantiate a LoadVars object

var ourLoadVar:LoadVars = new LoadVars();

//// point our LoadVars 'onLoad' handler to our function that will populate our textField once our data has been loaded. Note that this should be done before trying to load any data.

ourLoadVar.onLoad = function(successful) {
if(successful) {
myTextBox.text = ourLoadVar.Text;

//// note that Text is a property that will be created in our data file that we will be loading

} else {
myTextBox.text = "error loading data"
}
}
ourLoadVar3.load("yourfilename.txt");

/// IMPORTANT the text in your text file must start with Text= that is determined by this line of code (myTextBox.text = ourLoadVar.Text;) We tell flash to look for Text= in your document. Text= will not dispaly just everything after it