Comments on: How to connect to Google Analytics Data API in Flash

By: Stefan H.

Stefan H. — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:47:37 +0000

Hi thx a lot !

By: Sharedtut

Sharedtut — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:20:32 +0000

You’ve done a great job, thank you for putting this together and sharing it.

By: alex_mc

alex_mc — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:04:40 +0000

When you use a GET or POST request to send an Authorization header (using XML.addRequestHeader() and LoadVars.addRequestHeader() in ActionScript 2.0, or URLRequest.requestHeaders in ActionScript 3.0), the request fails and the header is not sent.

Starting with Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0 the Authorization header was added to the blacklist of HTTP headers and, only in this version, was blocked by Flash Player

So we should have one, two and more simple at least PHP files for tricks like that.

By: Raj Dye

Raj Dye — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:18:12 +0000

On my server PHP5 hosted at Hostgator I had to change the first file to:

By: zedia.net

zedia.net — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:49:00 +0000

Actually WordPress doesn’t like the php tags so if I edit the post, it will eat some part of it so in the first code segment it should be $response = $curl->post (…)

By: zedia.net

zedia.net — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:31:08 +0000

@Jon Haha, thank you for your comment. There is indeed an error in the code, Wordpress doesn't like greater than signs. I will correct this. As for Flex, this is independent on either Flash or Flex because it is just pure ActionScript so I don't understand what I need to explain specifically for Flex. I hope you find reasons to smile elsewhere.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:29:12 +0000

Im sorry but these instructions are a waste of space, the php code gives parse errors, there are no instructions how to use the package within Flex. A complete waste of time, learn how to post code

By: MM

MM — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:46:29 +0000

Hey,

great that you found a solution to this, although a bit of a let down that it has to involve server side scripting. But still, better than nothing.

In the URLRequest to get_token.php you send the username and password as GET variables, apparently in plain text. Why not store those in the PHP script on the server side instead so you don’t have to send them across the wire? Would be one less potential security risk.

btw. Could the reason for not being able to call GA API directly from flash in the browser be that GA doesn’t have a crossdomain policy file? I haven’t tried the GA API myself yet, so just wondering…

By: patrick

patrick — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:21:42 +0000

I was really happy to found your example.
Are you use that the first Script get_token.php is working well?
In my Case im not getting any feedback. $response Variable is not returning anything. I fixed the request with parts of following Post: http://entwickler-forum.de/showpost.php?p=152605&postcount=2.
I suppose I did a mistake somewhere…if I take in consideration my poor knowledge of php.

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