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LXIII. Ming functions for Flash

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This extension is EXPERIMENTAL. The behaviour of this extension -- including the names of its functions and anything else documented about this extension -- may change without notice in a future release of PHP. Use this extension at your own risk.

Introduction

First of all: Ming is not an acronym. Ming is an open-source (LGPL) library which allows you to create SWF ("Flash") format movies. Ming supports almost all of Flash 4's features, including: shapes, gradients, bitmaps (pngs and jpegs), morphs ("shape tweens"), text, buttons, actions, sprites ("movie clips"), streaming mp3, and color transforms --the only thing that's missing is sound events.

Note that all values specifying length, distance, size, etc. are in "twips", twenty units per pixel. That's pretty much arbitrary, though, since the player scales the movie to whatever pixel size is specified in the embed/object tag, or the entire frame if not embedded.

Ming offers a number of advantages over the existing PHP/libswf module. You can use Ming anywhere you can compile the code, whereas libswf is closed-source and only available for a few platforms, Windows not one of them. Ming provides some insulation from the mundane details of the SWF file format, wrapping the movie elements in PHP objects. Also, Ming is still being maintained; if there's a feature that you want to see, just let us know ming@opaque.net.

Ming was added in PHP 4.0.5.

Requirements

To use Ming with PHP, you first need to build and install the Ming library. Source code and installation instructions are available at the Ming home page: http://ming.sourceforge.net/ along with examples, a small tutorial, and the latest news.

Download the ming archive. Unpack the archive. Go in the Ming directory. make. make install.

This will build libming.so and install it into /usr/lib/, and copy ming.h into /usr/include/. Edit the PREFIX= line in the Makefile to change the installation directory.

Installation

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    mkdir <phpdir>/ext/ming
    cp php_ext/* <phpdir>/ext/ming
    cd <phpdir>
    ./buildconf
    ./configure --with-ming <other config options>

Build and install PHP as usual, restart web server if necessary.

Now either just add extension=php_ming.so to your php.ini file, or put dl('php_ming.so'); at the head of all of your Ming scripts.

Runtime Configuration

This extension has no configuration directives defined in php.ini.

Resource Types

Predefined Constants

The constants below are defined by this extension, and will only be available when the extension has either been compiled into PHP or dynamically loaded at runtime.

SWFBUTTON_HIT (integer)
SWFBUTTON_DOWN (integer)
SWFBUTTON_OVER (integer)
SWFBUTTON_UP (integer)
SWFBUTTON_MOUSEUPOUTSIDE (integer)
SWFBUTTON_DRAGOVER (integer)
SWFBUTTON_DRAGOUT (integer)
SWFBUTTON_MOUSEUP (integer)
SWFBUTTON_MOUSEDOWN (integer)
SWFBUTTON_MOUSEOUT (integer)
SWFBUTTON_MOUSEOVER (integer)
SWFFILL_RADIAL_GRADIENT (integer)
SWFFILL_LINEAR_GRADIENT (integer)
SWFFILL_TILED_BITMAP (integer)
SWFFILL_CLIPPED_BITMAP (integer)
SWFTEXTFIELD_HASLENGTH (integer)
SWFTEXTFIELD_NOEDIT (integer)
SWFTEXTFIELD_PASSWORD (integer)
SWFTEXTFIELD_MULTILINE (integer)
SWFTEXTFIELD_WORDWRAP (integer)
SWFTEXTFIELD_DRAWBOX (integer)
SWFTEXTFIELD_NOSELECT (integer)
SWFTEXTFIELD_HTML (integer)
SWFTEXTFIELD_ALIGN_LEFT (integer)
SWFTEXTFIELD_ALIGN_RIGHT (integer)
SWFTEXTFIELD_ALIGN_CENTER (integer)
SWFTEXTFIELD_ALIGN_JUSTIFY (integer)
SWFACTION_ONLOAD (integer)
SWFACTION_ENTERFRAME (integer)
SWFACTION_UNLOAD (integer)
SWFACTION_MOUSEMOVE (integer)
SWFACTION_MOUSEDOWN (integer)
SWFACTION_MOUSEUP (integer)
SWFACTION_KEYDOWN (integer)
SWFACTION_KEYUP (integer)
SWFACTION_DATA (integer)

Predefined Classes

The classes below are defined by this extension, and will only be available when the extension has either been compiled into PHP or dynamically loaded at runtime.

Ming introduces 13 new objects in PHP, all with matching methods and attributes. To use them, you need to know about objects.

swfshape
swffill
swfgradient
swfbitmap
swftext
swftextfield
swffont
swfdisplayitem
swfmovie
swfbutton
swfaction
swfmorph
swfsprite

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ming_setcubicthreshold -- Set cubic threshold (?)
ming_setscale -- Set scale (?)
ming_useswfversion -- Use SWF version (?)
SWFAction -- Creates a new Action.
SWFBitmap->getHeight -- Returns the bitmap's height.
SWFBitmap->getWidth -- Returns the bitmap's width.
SWFBitmap -- Loads Bitmap object
swfbutton_keypress -- Returns the action flag for keyPress(char)
SWFbutton->addAction -- Adds an action
SWFbutton->addShape -- Adds a shape to a button
SWFbutton->setAction -- Sets the action
SWFbutton->setdown -- Alias for addShape(shape, SWFBUTTON_DOWN)
SWFbutton->setHit -- Alias for addShape(shape, SWFBUTTON_HIT)
SWFbutton->setOver -- Alias for addShape(shape, SWFBUTTON_OVER)
SWFbutton->setUp -- Alias for addShape(shape, SWFBUTTON_UP)
SWFbutton -- Creates a new Button.
SWFDisplayItem->addColor -- Adds the given color to this item's color transform.
SWFDisplayItem->move -- Moves object in relative coordinates.
SWFDisplayItem->moveTo -- Moves object in global coordinates.
SWFDisplayItem->multColor -- Multiplies the item's color transform.
SWFDisplayItem->remove -- Removes the object from the movie
SWFDisplayItem->Rotate -- Rotates in relative coordinates.
SWFDisplayItem->rotateTo -- Rotates the object in global coordinates.
SWFDisplayItem->scale -- Scales the object in relative coordinates.
SWFDisplayItem->scaleTo -- Scales the object in global coordinates.
SWFDisplayItem->setDepth -- Sets z-order
SWFDisplayItem->setName -- Sets the object's name
SWFDisplayItem->setRatio -- Sets the object's ratio.
SWFDisplayItem->skewX -- Sets the X-skew.
SWFDisplayItem->skewXTo -- Sets the X-skew.
SWFDisplayItem->skewY -- Sets the Y-skew.
SWFDisplayItem->skewYTo -- Sets the Y-skew.
SWFDisplayItem -- Creates a new displayitem object.
SWFFill->moveTo -- Moves fill origin
SWFFill->rotateTo -- Sets fill's rotation
SWFFill->scaleTo -- Sets fill's scale
SWFFill->skewXTo -- Sets fill x-skew
SWFFill->skewYTo -- Sets fill y-skew
SWFFill -- Loads SWFFill object
swffont->getwidth -- Returns the string's width
SWFFont -- Loads a font definition
SWFGradient->addEntry -- Adds an entry to the gradient list.
SWFGradient -- Creates a gradient object
SWFMorph->getshape1 -- Gets a handle to the starting shape
SWFMorph->getshape2 -- Gets a handle to the ending shape
SWFMorph -- Creates a new SWFMorph object.
SWFMovie->add -- Adds any type of data to a movie.
SWFMovie->nextframe -- Moves to the next frame of the animation.
SWFMovie->output -- Dumps your lovingly prepared movie out.
swfmovie->remove -- Removes the object instance from the display list.
SWFMovie->save -- Saves your movie in a file.
SWFMovie->setbackground -- Sets the background color.
SWFMovie->setdimension -- Sets the movie's width and height.
SWFMovie->setframes -- Sets the total number of frames in the animation.
SWFMovie->setrate -- Sets the animation's frame rate.
SWFMovie->streammp3 -- Streams a MP3 file.
SWFMovie -- Creates a new movie object, representing an SWF version 4 movie.
SWFShape->addFill -- Adds a solid fill to the shape.
SWFShape->drawCurve -- Draws a curve (relative).
SWFShape->drawCurveTo -- Draws a curve.
SWFShape->drawLine -- Draws a line (relative).
SWFShape->drawLineTo -- Draws a line.
SWFShape->movePen -- Moves the shape's pen (relative).
SWFShape->movePenTo -- Moves the shape's pen.
SWFShape->setLeftFill -- Sets left rasterizing color.
SWFShape->setLine -- Sets the shape's line style.
SWFShape->setRightFill -- Sets right rasterizing color.
SWFShape -- Creates a new shape object.
swfsprite->add -- Adds an object to a sprite
SWFSprite->nextframe -- Moves to the next frame of the animation.
SWFSprite->remove -- Removes an object to a sprite
SWFSprite->setframes -- Sets the total number of frames in the animation.
SWFSprite -- Creates a movie clip (a sprite)
SWFText->addString -- Draws a string
SWFText->getWidth -- Computes string's width
SWFText->moveTo -- Moves the pen
SWFText->setColor -- Sets the current font color
SWFText->setFont -- Sets the current font
SWFText->setHeight -- Sets the current font height
SWFText->setSpacing -- Sets the current font spacing
SWFText -- Creates a new SWFText object.
SWFTextField->addstring -- Concatenates the given string to the text field
SWFTextField->align -- Sets the text field alignment
SWFTextField->setbounds -- Sets the text field width and height
SWFTextField->setcolor -- Sets the color of the text field.
SWFTextField->setFont -- Sets the text field font
SWFTextField->setHeight -- Sets the font height of this text field font.
SWFTextField->setindentation -- Sets the indentation of the first line.
SWFTextField->setLeftMargin -- Sets the left margin width of the text field.
SWFTextField->setLineSpacing -- Sets the line spacing of the text field.
SWFTextField->setMargins -- Sets the margins width of the text field.
SWFTextField->setname -- Sets the variable name
SWFTextField->setrightMargin -- Sets the right margin width of the text field.
SWFTextField -- Creates a text field object

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Ming functions for Flash

catfarm at gmail dot com
06-Sep-2007 04:48


I tried to use the code suggested below by random at nowhere dot com to extract the width and height from an swf with no success, however the following worked for me in php 5.



<?php



$info = getimagesize('flashfile.swf');

$w = $info[0];

$h = $info[1];



?>



not sure how far back it works, or with what versions of flash, but it seems to work with flash 7 files just fine.

random at nowhere dot com
01-Aug-2007 01:48


For those looking for just getting size of a .swf file : 

<?

// bytes_to_signed_int(data,offset,length)

function b2i($d,$o,$l) {

    $s=(ord($d[$o/8])>>(7-$o%8))&1; $r=0;

    for ($i=$o+1;$i<$o+$l;$i++) {

        $b=(ord($d[$i/8])>>(7-$i%8))&1;

        $r=($r<<1)+($s?!$b:$b);

    }

    if ($s) { $r++; $r=-$r; }

    return $r;

}



// flash9 or <9 but uncompressed

$f="myfile.swf"; 



// get only 20 first bytes

$d=file_get_contents($f,0,null,0,20); 



echo "Version of Flash : ".ord($d[3])."<br>";

$s=unpack("V",substr($d,4,4)); echo "FileSize : ".$s[1]." bytes<br>";



// here is the decompression, fix this for flash <9

if (substr($d,0,3)=="CWS") $d=substr($d,0,8).gzinflate(substr($d,8));



$nb=ord($d[8])>>3; // bytes needed

$xmin=b2i($d,8*8+5,$nb);

$xmax=b2i($d,8*8+5+$nb,$nb);

$ymin=b2i($d,8*8+5+2*$nb,$nb);

$ymax=b2i($d,8*8+5+3*$nb,$nb);



// width=xmax-xmin, height=ymax-ymin, twips->pixels = /20

echo "width=".(($xmax-$xmin)/20)."<br>";

echo "height=".(($ymax-$ymin)/20)."<br>";

?>

rolf at winmutt dot com
18-Mar-2007 02:51


Here is a little font browser I made to try and typeset match my designers font from the pack of 1300+ fdb I found on google:



<?

    $m = new SWFMovie();

    $m->setBackground(0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF);

    $m->setDimension(320, 40);



    function drawGlyphString($string, $s, $f, $fill) {

        $s->setRightFill($fill);

        $s->movePenTo(0, $f->getAscent());



        for ($i=0; $i<strlen($string); $i++) {

            $s->drawGlyph($f, substr($string,$i,1), $size);

            $s->movePen($f->getWidth(substr($string,$i,1)), 0);

        }

    }

    

    function drawFont($f) {

        $logo = new SWFShape();



        $grey = $logo->addFill(0, 0, 0);

        drawGlyphString('yrt '.$_REQUEST['fdb'], $logo, $f, $grey);

        return $logo;

    }

    

    if ($_REQUEST['fdb']) {

        $f = new SWFFont($_REQUEST['fdb']);

        $i = $m->add(drawFont($f));

        $i->scaleTo(0.5);

        header('Content-type: application/x-shockwave-flash');

        $m->output();

    } else {

        if (!$_REQUEST['o']) $_REQUEST['o']=0;

        if (!$_REQUEST['l']) $_REQUEST['l']=80;

        $o=$_REQUEST['o'];

        $l=$_REQUEST['l'];



        $d = dir(".");

        while (false !== ($entry = $d->read())) {

            if (stristr($entry, 'fdb') && !strstr($entry, '-I') && !strstr($entry, '-B')) {

                if ($_REQUEST['o']) {

                    $_REQUEST['o']--;

                } elseif ($_REQUEST['l'] ) {

                    $_REQUEST['l']--;

                    echo '<iframe height="30px" src="fonts.php?fdb='.$entry.'&" title="'.$entry.'"></iframe>';

                } else {

                    echo '<img src="/creativesyndrome.com/logo.png"><br><a href="?l='.$l.'&o='.($o+$l).'">next ></a>';exit;

                }

            }

        }

        $d->close();

    }

    



?>

Scottie_Too_Hottie7 at lycos dot com
11-Nov-2005 12:59


For People Like My Mate, Matt, Who Dosent Know Much PHP, I Am Creating A Simpeler PHP Libary. It Runs Under Ming 0.3



It - Along With Two Examples - Can Be Currently Downloaded From The Link Below



PLEASE NOTE : At The Time Of This Post, The Libary Is Currently Is Unfinished And Currently Looks Like A Mess Of Files - But It Works!



http://members.lycos.co.uk/cgming/simpleswf.html

dank at nospam dot org
08-Apr-2005 02:23


/*

If you are looking to do some simple interaction between Flash MX and php,

here is an extremely basic model to get you started. The Flash file has a simple

Input Text field which allows the user to enter text (ie a textbox). The flash 

then passes the textfield to the php script for processing/database interaction etc. 



The idea is a form made in Flash, but processing by php/mysql (or whatever). If you want

to handle all GUI in Flash, see the links below for more info.



All "Actions" or "Action Script" located in frame 1, layer 1.

In Flash, create an Input Box with an instance name of myTextBox.

Create a "submit button" using Insert>New Symbol>Movie Clip.

Dont use the PushButton Component or you will have to add

scripting to that component (ie outside Frame1 Layer1). Keeping all the 

Action Script in Frame1 makes for a simpler example.



Next, click on the background in Frame1 (the "Properties" dialog

should show the Background color). Hit F9 to show actions for Frame1.

Enter the below code:

*/



//Create object to hold vars

dataSender  = new LoadVars();



//Define submit button behavior

submit_button.onRelease = function() {

    //assign properties to LoadVars object created previously

    //myTextBox is instance name for input text box

    //foo will be the var passed to php (ie $foo)

    //Set foo to the text entered by user

    dataSender.foo = myTextBox.text;

    //Call flash's send function to send foo to the php script

    //Using "_self" will pass control to the php script

    dataSender.send("testFlash.php", "_self", "POST");

}



/* Put the swf file in an html file and upload it to the server

Create the below php file and save it as testFlash.php:



<?php

echo "foo= $foo";

?>



Push testFlash.php to the same directory on the server and hit

your html file with your browser. 



Parts of this code taken from:

http://www.thegoldenmean.com/technique/flashMX_mailform1.html

and

http://actionscript-toolbox.com/samplemx_php.php

*/

wokan at cox dot net
01-Jun-2004 06:07


For those who don't get the naming, _Ming_ the Merciless was comic book hero _Flash_ Gordon's arch enemy.

gaz_b3 at yahoo dot com
04-Apr-2003 05:11


The current CVS version, Ming 0.3a, supports 

a lot of MX ActionScript including the MX Drawing API.

This is very nice for easy command line compiling of 

MX ActionScript only movies.



For example:



<?

ming_setScale(20.00000000);

ming_useswfversion(6);

$movie = new SWFMovie();

$movie->setDimension(550,400);

$movie->setBackground(0xcc, 0xcc, 0xcc );

$movie->setRate(31);



// mx actionscript

$strAction = "

_root.createEmptyMovieClip ( 'triangle', 1 );

with ( _root.triangle ) {

lineStyle( 5, 0xff00ff, 100 );

moveTo( 200, 200 );

lineTo( 300,300 ); 

lineTo( 100, 300 );

lineTo( 200, 200 );

}

";



$movie->add(new SWFAction( str_replace("\r", "", $strAction) ));

$movie->save("trianglemx.swf");

?>



Lots of examples here:



http://www16.brinkster.com/gazb/ming/

kunnoichi at hotmail dot com
20-Aug-2001 12:50


//In quicktime, movies may be exported as jpeg or png


//This object will convert any movie that has been saved as a group of images into


//an swf file. The frame rate and other attributes can be controlled





$path = "my_movie_dir"; //relative path to the jpg/png or bmp files


$frame_rate=30; //frame rate of the flash movie


$quality=50; //image quality during conversion (only valid if not jpeg)


$skip_rate=5; //how many frames to skip


set_time_limit("600"); //this could take some time





$converter=new images_to_swf($path,$frame_rate,$skip_rate);





//$converter->convert_images(70); //Use this if using non jpeg files or decreasing the quality





$converter->make_movie();//Make the movie





//Do two things with it


$converter->save_movie("my_movie_dir/my_movie.swf"); 


$converter->output_movie();





class images_to_swf {


    


    var $path; //path to the image files


    var $skip_rate;


    var $movie;


    var $images=array();


    


    function images_to_swf($path,$frame_rate=30,$skip_rate=5) {


        $this->path=$path;


        $this->skip_rate=$skip_rate;


        


        $this->movie=new swfmovie ();


        $this->movie->setrate ($frame_rate);


    }


    


    function convert_images($quality=80,$delete_old_files=1) {


        $main = opendir($this->path);


        rewinddir($main);


        //first convert to jpeg (if we have to)


        //also change the quality


        while($filename = readdir($main)) { 


            


            //only use valid file types


            if (ereg("(png|bmp|jpg|jpeg)\$",$filename)) {


                $file_path=$this->path."/".$filename;


                


                if (ereg("png\$",$filename)) $temp_img=imagecreatefrompng ($file_path);


                else if (ereg("bmp\$",$filename)) $temp_img=imagecreatefrompng ($file_path);


                else if (ereg("(jpg|jpeg)\$",$filename)) $temp_img=imagecreatefromjpeg ($file_path);


                


                if (ereg("(png|bmp)\$",$filename)) {


                    if ($delete_old_files) unlink($file_path);


                    $new_file_path=$file_path.".jpg";


                }


                else $new_file_path=$file_path;


                


                ImageJPEG($temp_img,$new_file_path,$quality);


                


                //echo "Converted $filename to $new_file_path at quality $quality<br />";


            }


        }


    }


    


    function make_movie() {


        $main = opendir($this->path);


        rewinddir($main);


        //Get all valid jpegs


        while($filename = readdir($main)) { 


            if (ereg("(jpg|jpeg)\$",$filename)) {


                $file_path=$this->path."/".$filename;


                $valid_paths[]=$file_path;


            }


        }


        


        //Put jpegs in order


        sort($valid_paths);


        


        //then create the movie


        for ($a=0; $a<count($valid_paths); $a=$a+$this->skip_rate) {


            $fp = fopen($valid_paths[$a],"rb");


            $this->images[$a] = fread($fp,999999);


            fclose($fp);


            $this->movie->add(new swfbitmap($this->images[$a]));


            $this->movie->nextframe();


            //echo "Added ".$valid_paths[$a]." to the movie<br />\n";


        }


    }


    


    function save_movie($file_name) {


        $this->movie->save($file_name);


    }


    


    function output_movie() {


        header('Content-type: application/x-shockwave-flash');


        $this->movie->output();


    }


}

ivv_rousse at yahoo dot com
04-Aug-2001 06:17


// Simple button with link





<?php


  Ming_setScale(1.0);





  function makeRect($r, $g, $b){


    $s = new SWFShape();


    $s->setRightFill($s->addFill($r, $g, $b));


    $s->movePenTo(-100,-20);


    $s->drawLineTo(100,-20);


    $s->drawLineTo(100,20);


    $s->drawLineTo(-100,20);


    $s->drawLineTo(-100,-20);


    return $s;


  }





// Set Font


  $font = new SWFFont("test.fdb");


  $text1 = new SWFText();


  $text1->setFont($font);


  $text1->moveTo(155, 410);


  $text1->setColor(0x00, 0x00, 0x00);


  $text1->setHeight(28);


  $text1->addString("php.net");


  $b1 = new SWFButton();


  $b1->setUp(makeRect(0xff, 0, 0));


  $b1->setOver(makeRect(0xcc, 0, 0));


  $b1->setDown(makeRect(0, 0, 0xaa));


  $b1->setHit(makeRect(0, 0, 0));


  $b1->addAction(new SWFAction("getURL('http://www.php.net/', 'phpsite');"),


                SWFBUTTON_MOUSEUP);





  $m = new SWFMovie();


  $m->setDimension(1000,1000);


  $m->setBackground(0xcc, 0xcc, 0xcc);





  $i = $m->add($b1);


  $m->add($text1);


  $i->setName("phpsite");


  $i->moveTo(200,400);





header("Content-type: application/x-shockwave-flash");


$m->output();


?>

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