Introduction

PHP offers the ability to create Shockwave Flash files via Paul Haeberli's libswf module.

Note: SWF support was added in PHP 4 RC2.

The libswf does not have support for Windows. The development of that library has been stopped, and the source is not available to port it to another systems.

For up to date SWF support take a look at the MING functions.

Note: This extension has been moved to the » PECL repository and is no longer bundled with PHP as of PHP 5.0.0.

Requirements

You need the libswf library to compile PHP with support for this extension. You can download libswf at » ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/graphics/grafica/flash/.

Installation

Once you have libswf all you need to do is to configure --with-swf[=DIR] where DIR is a location containing the directories include and lib. The include directory has to contain the swf.h file and the lib directory has to contain the libswf.a file. If you unpack the libswf distribution the two files will be in one directory. Consequently you will have to copy the files to the proper location manually.

Runtime Configuration

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

Resource Types

This extension has no resource types defined.

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.

Examples

Once you've successfully installed PHP with Shockwave Flash support you can then go about creating Shockwave files from PHP. You would be surprised at what you can do, take the following code:

Table of Contents

swf_actiongeturl — Get a URL from a Shockwave Flash movie

swf_actiongotoframe — Play a frame and then stop

swf_actiongotolabel — Display a frame with the specified label

swf_actionnextframe — Go forward one frame

swf_actionplay — Start playing the flash movie from the current frame

swf_actionprevframe — Go backwards one frame

swf_actionsettarget — Set the context for actions

swf_actionstop — Stop playing the flash movie at the current frame

swf_actiontogglequality — Toggle between low and high quality

swf_actionwaitforframe — Skip actions if a frame has not been loaded

swf_addbuttonrecord — Controls location, appearance and active area of the current button

swf_addcolor — Set the global add color to the rgba value specified

swf_closefile — Close the current Shockwave Flash file

swf_definebitmap — Define a bitmap

swf_definefont — Defines a font

swf_defineline — Define a line

swf_definepoly — Define a polygon

swf_definerect — Define a rectangle

swf_definetext — Define a text string

swf_endbutton — End the definition of the current button

swf_enddoaction — End the current action

swf_endshape — Completes the definition of the current shape

swf_endsymbol — End the definition of a symbol

swf_fontsize — Change the font size

swf_fontslant — Set the font slant

swf_fonttracking — Set the current font tracking

swf_getbitmapinfo — Get information about a bitmap

swf_getfontinfo — Gets font information

swf_getframe — Get the frame number of the current frame

swf_labelframe — Label the current frame

swf_lookat — Define a viewing transformation

swf_modifyobject — Modify an object

swf_mulcolor — Sets the global multiply color to the rgba value specified

swf_nextid — Returns the next free object id

swf_oncondition — Describe a transition used to trigger an action list

swf_openfile — Open a new Shockwave Flash file

swf_ortho2 — Defines 2D orthographic mapping of user coordinates onto the current viewport

swf_ortho — Defines an orthographic mapping of user coordinates onto the current viewport

swf_perspective — Define a perspective projection transformation

swf_placeobject — Place an object onto the screen

swf_polarview — Define the viewer's position with polar coordinates

swf_popmatrix — Restore a previous transformation matrix

swf_posround — Enables or Disables the rounding of the translation when objects are placed or moved

swf_pushmatrix — Push the current transformation matrix back unto the stack

swf_removeobject — Remove an object

swf_rotate — Rotate the current transformation

swf_scale — Scale the current transformation

swf_setfont — Change the current font

swf_setframe — Switch to a specified frame

swf_shapearc — Draw a circular arc

swf_shapecurveto3 — Draw a cubic bezier curve

swf_shapecurveto — Draw a quadratic bezier curve between two points

swf_shapefillbitmapclip — Set current fill mode to clipped bitmap

swf_shapefillbitmaptile — Set current fill mode to tiled bitmap

swf_shapefilloff — Turns off filling

swf_shapefillsolid — Set the current fill style to the specified color

swf_shapelinesolid — Set the current line style

swf_shapelineto — Draw a line

swf_shapemoveto — Move the current position

swf_showframe — Display the current frame

swf_startbutton — Start the definition of a button

swf_startdoaction — Start a description of an action list for the current frame

swf_startshape — Start a complex shape

swf_startsymbol — Define a symbol

swf_textwidth — Get the width of a string

swf_translate — Translate the current transformations

swf_viewport — Select an area for future drawing