jQuery load PHP that display flash content

Question

What my php side does is load data use 'id' from database, and then show the raw data of swf files. The code of php like this:

<?php
if(isset($_GET['id']))
{
    include ('database.php');

    $record = mysql_query("SELECT `Flash`, `FlashBlob` FROM `information` WHERE `id` = '". $_GET['id'] ."'; ", $link);

    $swf = mysql_fetch_array($record);

    mysql_close($link);

    header("Content-type: " . $swf['Flash']);
    echo $swf['FlashBlob'];

    exit;
}

So if I just load the php in the web link, it goes well( the whole php page will show the flash I stored in database). In my main page, I want to load the page into my div($("#gameArea")), I have tried:

    var xmlhttp;
    if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
        xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
    } else {
        xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
    }
    xmlhttp.open("GET", 'api/swfInfo.php?id=' + id,true);
    xmlhttp.send();
    xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
        if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4 && xmlhttp.status == 200) {
                document.getElementById('gameArea').innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
        }
    }

but the result is it load only raw data( binary data) not the flash(swf file to be shown), what should I do?

I even not sure whether I should find a flash plugin for my flash or not because I put my flash(swf file) in the database for some reason......

Please help me for the direction, thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Your overcomplicating the problem. If in-fact your swfInfo.php is outputting the swf file's bytes with a content type of application/x-shockwave-flash all you need to do is set the data attribute of your <object> tag to that URL.

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="api/swfInfo.php?id=7">
    <param /> <!-- parameters -->
</object>

I would also recommend a content-length declaration to ensure your connection closes properly when loading files this way.

header('Content-length: ' . mb_strlen($swf['FlashBlob']));
header('Connection: close');

Answer 2

Try the following:

header('Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash');
header("Content-Disposition:attachment; filename="test.swf");

My questions are:

What is $swf['Flash'] ? Maybe there is the error? Have you tried your script with a file_read_content() just for debugging reasons?