Comments on: How To: Install PHP-Ming

By: Php Flash 5 Form Tutorial

Php Flash 5 Form Tutorial — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:18:30 +0000

Hey! I’ve been looking for a site that has some good information on Php Flash 5 Form Tutorial. I was searching around on Google and your post regarding How to install php-ming in Fedora caught my attention .. Good info thanks Sunday

By: Mike D

Mike D — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I might add in my case (centos5) I added a new text file ming.ini with content:

extension=ming.so

To directory /etc/php.d/
(then restart apache)

By: Jacek

Jacek — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great tutorial! Thank you very much.
CentOS 5

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Install works, but production fails
However: once I instantiate a movie like so :
$m = new SWFMovie(); $m->setBackground(0xff, 0xff, 0xff); $m->setDimension(6000, 4000);


  $i = $m->add($p);

  $i->setDepth(1);

  $i->moveTo(-500,2000);

  $i->setName("box");
  $m->add(new SWFAction("/box.x += 3;"));

  $m->nextFrame();

  $m->add(new SWFAction("gotoFrame(0); play();"));

  $m->nextFrame();

header('Content-type: application/x-shockwave-flash'); $m->output();
PHP complains on the last line about a syntax error.:
[Wed Apr 30 14:28:26 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: SWFMovie::output() [function.SWFMovie-output]: \n/\n^\nLine 1: Reason: ‘syntax error’\n in /usr/plotus/people/htdocs/js/widgets/ming2.html on line 39

what do we do now?
T

By: kulbirsaini

kulbirsaini — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

>> $m->output();

I think $m->save(‘file.swf’) is the right function to use.
An example working code.
$s = new SWFShape(); $s->setLine(40, 0x7f, 0, 0); $s->setRightFill($s->addFill(0xff, 0, 0)); $s->movePenTo(200, 200); $s->drawLineTo(200, 200); $s->drawLineTo(1200, 600); $s->drawCurveTo(1200, 600, 200, 200);


  $m = new SWFMovie();

  $m->setDimension(6400, 4800);

  $m->setRate(12.0);

  $m->add($s);

  $m->nextFrame();

header('Content-type: application/x-shockwave-flash'); $m->save('test.swf');

BTW, I edited your comment so that it looks good 🙂
Hope this example helps.

By: Jun Pan

Jun Pan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks kulbirsaini!
Your post saved me tons of time.
Also thank Google for digging your post out for me 🙂

By: matteoosh

matteoosh — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

i spent 5 hours on binding ming with php – eventually your tutorial helped me to figure it out properly what was wrong. 😀 thnks a lot.
M.

By: visitor

visitor — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The package for installa php4-ming extension don't exist in repository of Ubuntu. What i do? closets

By: kulbirsaini

kulbirsaini — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

its an archived package and will not be found in the ubuntu archive… Download from the link mentioned in the howto.