[PHP]Flash Game Site

[PostOfTheYear]

Well look, I'm creating a website that contains flash games.
If someone uploads, the uploaded game will be registered at mysql, then a user searches the game and it will come a preview. You know, like in youtube, when you upload a vid and you searched the vid it will come with a pic.
For you to understand, I'll bring a pic here.

I need help with it friends

 

[PostOfTheYear]

Any body there? Sorry for bumping.

 

[Wh005h]

I have no idea how to do this but I can narrow your search.
You're looking for something that either, as flash generates an img or as html reads the flash and generates an img.
My suggestion is to make the flash make an image of the first scene or something of the sort. Course' I have no idea how to do either but those are my ideas ^_^

 

[PostOfTheYear]

Ok, I'll try. Thanks for the ideas

 

[s-p-n]

Look at game sites and see how they do it? Maybe they make the user upload a screen shot with the game or something.. I'm sure there's something on google.. Somewhere out there..

 

[daniel369]

it might be related to JS, try searching youtube for some of their JSs and copy...
But... if you can't find one, just make the user upload a pic of the game..

Flash games are a bit different than a video because in a vid, you can select a random point, and in a flash game, you have to select a point where you can actually see how you play the game.

 

[ZiXStyle]

I guess its made on AJAX
Window pops-up with javascript
With AJAX you get image for specific game and then display it

 

[Mr.Lucifer]

Youtube videos and flash games are entirely different things. Youtube just needs to take a picture inside the video, which isn't hard at all. The flash game sites upload a picture together with the game.

 

[IQstim]

You can consider a temporary fix which is: auto-buffering. In this case the first frame will be presented.

<swf file="myMovie" stream="rtmp://server/app" action="swftools_flv_display" autoPlay="false" autoBuffering="true">

 

[s-p-n]

You can consider a temporary fix which is: auto-buffering. In this case the first frame will be presented.

<swf file="myMovie" stream="rtmp://server/app" action="swftools_flv_display" autoPlay="false" autoBuffering="true">

ooo that's so cool I never knew that