This crude Perl script creates (Macromedia) Flash-style variables and writes them to an text file, which you can load into your flash site.
It allows you to make textupdates and save the updated text from within your flash webpage.

I know I should have used strict and warnings. Sorry!

Also a very very simple and unsafe security by fixed ip-numbercheck, probably not really safe so I suggest you build a better security option yourself ;)

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# flashupdate.pl
# by teabag <tony@lvp-site.nl> last rev. 09/04/03
# This Perl script create Flash variables and write them
# to an text file, which you can load into your flash site.
#################################################################
#     Instructions
#  1. Define the 3 variables
#  2. Upload update.pl script to your /cgi-bin or (cgi)folder 
#     using ASCII mode and CHMOD 755
#  3. Upload an empty (.txt) file named to the path (../data)you speci
+fy
#     in $full_path
#  4. Run and RESET/DELETE the script by calling it from an HTML form 
+of from a 
#     Flash-generated form (using Get URL, with option Variables: Send
+ using POST) 
################################################################# 

# Define these variables!

# relative path form script to dir where datafile is located
# no trailing slash!
# added just a simple fixed ip-numbercheck 

$myipnumber = "123.45.67.890";
$full_path = "/htdocs/data";
$data_file = "update.txt";  

checkip();

    @days   = ('Sunday','Monday','Tuesday','Wednesday',
               'Thursday','Friday','Saturday');
    @months = ('january','february','march','april','may','june','july
+',
             'august','september','october','november','december');   
+                    
    ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday) =
(localtime(time))[0,1,2,3,4,5,6];
    $time = sprintf("%02d:%02d:%02d",$hour,$min,$sec);
    $year += 1900;
    $date_for_logfile = "$mday $months[$mon] $year, $time";

read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);

foreach $pair (@pairs) {
    ($name,$value)=split(/=/,$pair);
    $name =~tr/+//;
    $name =~s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C",hex($1))/eg;
    $value =~tr/+//;
    $value =~ s/~!/ ~!/g;
    $value =~ s/\+/ /g;
    $value =~ s/<([^>])*>//g;
    $value =~ s/(\r)+/\-\-/g;
    $value =~ s/\n+//g;
    $value=~s/\<SCRIPT//gi;
    $value=~s/\<\/SCRIPT\>//gi;
    $value=~s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C",hex($1))/eg;
#substitute flash special characters
       $value =~ s/\%/%25/g;             # filters and fixes '%'
       $value =~ s/\+/%2b/g;             # filters and fixes '+'
       $value =~ s/\=/%3D/g;             # filters and fixes '='
       $value =~ s/\&/%26/g;             # filters and fixes '&'
       $value =~ s/\$/%24/g;             # filters and fixes '$'
           $value =~ s/\{/%7B/g;             # filters and fixes '{'
           $value =~ s/\}/%7D/g;             # filters and fixes '}'

# this line below strips linebreaks, delete comment tag if you get pro
+blems 
# with the layout! The linebreaks will then work properly, in the layo
+ut

#       $value =~ s/\n/ /g;               #filters and deletes the lin
+ebreaks
    $FORM{$name} = $value;
    push (@formdata,$name);
    push (@formdata,$value);
}
    %formdata=@formdata;
    %formdata;

    foreach $key (keys(%formdata)){    
    push (@fieldnames,$key);
}
    open (RESULTS,">$full_path/$data_file") || die "Couldn't open file
+: $!\n";
    foreach $fieldname (@fieldnames) { 
    print RESULTS "$fieldname=$formdata{$fieldname}&"
}
    print RESULTS "updated=$date_for_logfile";
    close (RESULTS);

# Print Results to your browser
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print <<flash_vars_top;
<html>
<head>
<title>Results</title>
</head>
<body>
<center>
<b>Your Flash variables created $date_for_logfile :</b><br>
flash_vars_top

# for each variable name (field name in your form),
# print its name & value pair to the web page
    foreach $fieldname (@fieldnames) {
    print "<b>$fieldname</b> - $formdata{$fieldname}<br>\n";
    }
print "</center>\n</body>\n</html>\n";

exit;

sub checkip{
if ($ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} eq $myipnumber){
}
else {
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<html><head><title>Error!</title></head><body bgcolor=white><p>
+</p><p><center>
<font face=\"Verdana, Arial\" color=red size=\"3\"><b>Invalid ip-numbe
+r</b>
</font></center></p></body></html>";
exit;
}
}

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