Display Image from URL?

[pinacoladaxb]

I'd like to get an image from a url and display it in my MMF2 Flash application. Is there a flash-compatible extension that can do this? I haven't found anything.

Specifically, I intend to retrieve a Facebook user's profile image from the url http://graph.facebook.com/<USER ID>/picture

Thank you.

[ChrisBurrows]

Something like this maybe...

[pinacoladaxb]

Yes like that, except the Active Picture object unfortunately isn't available to the SWF exporter.

[ChrisBurrows]

Unlucky...

[SoftWarewolf]

The flash images plus extension works:
http://www.clickteam.com/epicenter/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=218663

it's what i use to generate the main page on gameyey.com

[pinacoladaxb]

Thanks SoftWarewolf. My problem now is that Flash Images Plus is not able to load Facebook profile images because the http://graph.facebook.com/<USER ID>/picture url is a directory that redirects to the actual image. So I'm guessing I'll need to do some local caching of these images, which I would like to avoid. If anyone knows any possible workarounds, I would very much appreciate it. Is there a way to retrieve the url that is redirected to and then get the image from that? :/

EDIT: I found a solution in some PHP code, using the Get object in MMF. Here's the code, for benefit of future searches:

<?php
$dest = "http://graph.facebook.com/".$_GET['user']."/picture/";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $dest);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_exec($ch);

$url = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);

curl_close($ch);

echo($url);
?>