General plugins

//this function responds to the return call from Moodle after init is called.

//Moodle passes data back to this function as properties of moodleService

//in this case their is one propery moodleService.question

moodleService.onInit=function(){

    _root.textfield1.text = moodleService.question;

    //start timer after we have displayed question so 

    //that we can tell the time difference later

    startTime = getTimer();

}

//this function is triggered by pressing the sendbutton 

_root.sendbutton.onRelease = function() {

    //we send the answer off to the server and it is checked there

    //we also send the time it took to answer the question

    moodleService.send_response(_root.response.text, ((getTimer()-startTime)));

    //we want to stop the user editing his response after the question has 

    //been sent

    _root.response.type='dynamic';//stop editing

    //we will stop displaying this button for now

    this._visible=false;

}

moodleService.send_response_onResult=function(feedback){

    _root.feedback.text = feedback;

    //redisplay the send button for a different purpose

    _root.sendbutton._visible=true;

    //now the send button is used to finish the movie

    _root.sendbutton.buttonlabel.text='Finish';

    //when a movie is finished then you should cleanup your flash session 

    //with this function when possible, this will also send the user back to the

    //results page for this activity:

    _root.sendbutton.onRelease=moodleService.cleanUp;

}

//here we now call init

//(note nothing else has been called up to now on the first frame, we've just been setting up

//up some functions to handle returned results later

moodleService.init();

//init calls the service class constrcutor service()

//then when that returns moodleService.onInit() is called

<?php

global $CFG;

require("$CFG->dirroot/mod/flash/movies/library.php");

class service  {

    var $fromcredentials;

    /**

     * This function is called when you call init() from Flash

     *

     * @param array $this->fromcredentials is an array of info about this activity passed from Moodle

     */

    function service($fromcredentials)   {

        //this will allow you to access the first name of the user

        global $USER;

        $this->question=$USER->firstname.", isn't this great?";

        //save array passed from Moodle

        //this array includes the course id and cmid etc. This is not from the flash movie.

        //you may pass parameter to this function call from the flash movie using 

        //moodleService.init(param1, param2) you can only pass upto 2 params

        //when you pass params for example 2 then you would write this function as :

        // function service($param1, $param2, $fromcredentials) 

        $this->fromcredentials=$fromcredentials;

    }

    /**

     * Used to receive a response from Flash to PHP. When this function returns and data is received by Flash 

     * then onResult_send_response() is called in Flash with one parameter - the returned value

     *

     * @param string $response

     * @param integer $time time in milliseconds it took to answer

     */

    function send_response($response, $time){

        if ($response=="yes"){

            flash_save_response($this->fromcredentials['accessid'],$this->fromcredentials['courseid'], $this->fromcredentials['cmid'],1,

                         array('answer'=>$response, 'time'=>intval($time)/1000), 100);

            //the answer was correct we'll return text feedback.

            //if you want to return more than one param then you can use an array or object to return them in

            //nested arrays and objects work fine for returning complex object / array structures

            return "Correct";

        } else {

            flash_save_response($this->fromcredentials['accessid'],$this->fromcredentials['courseid'], $this->fromcredentials['cmid'],1,

                         array('answer'=>$response, 'time'=>intval($time)/1000), 0);

            return "Wrong";

        }

    }

}

?>