Hi 

Friends of Ed , Advanced PHP for Flash had a good workaround on this..
The stickler is that form file uploads are of enctype "multipart/form-data"
e.g
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="_URL_" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="30000">
Send this file: <input name="userfile" type="file">
<input type="submit" value="Send File">
</form>

Whilst flash handles posted/get data as 
multipart/form-www-urlencoded (?) or something similar.

The PHP version used a frameset. You could also use some html styled with CSS to look 
like your
Flash movie... use a *user initiated* popup or an include on the same page as Flash.

Sending a file thru Flash seems a bit heavy even if it could be done... You would have 
to copy the
file into the downloaded Flash movie then send it to the server side script.
Maybe a future verson of flash will handle multipart/form-data...

To see how PHP handles this check out..
http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php

Cheers
James



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From: "Steve Onnis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Flash Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:09:35 +1000
Subject: [fugli] Re: Uploading files thru flash and CFfile

> there is a script on flashcfm.com which is basically a frameset type
> sernario, but it works aparently
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark M
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 12:56 PM
> To: Flash Developers List
> Subject: [fugli] Re: Uploading files thru flash and CFfile
> 
> > Just wondering if anyone has done any stuff with uplaoding files thru
> > flash forms with cffile backend etc.
> 
> Unfortunately - not possible.
> 
> Due to the specific form encoding needed on a cffile uploading, you won't be
> able
> to pass a filename through flash to a cfffile.
> 
> The only way to do it is through some sort of series of hacks in which a cf
> template is called to upload the file (somehow) in the background, or you
> popup a
> small cf page with a [browse] button.
> 
> Maybe things have changed with MX2004... but I would be surprised.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Mark
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