Continuing my flash automation saga this time I’m going to blog about a fla2swf utility, as I promised in the previous post about fcshd. You can grab it in the downloads section of the flash-automation project.

fla2swf is a command line utility written in PHP which can be used in a batch mode for publishing .fla files to .swf. It consists of the client and server parts. The cool thing behind this utility is the fact the client can be run on the box without Flash IDE installed(even on the *nix box). Of course, you will need the server to be run on the workstation with the Flash authoring environment installed.
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For the impatient

fcshd is a convenient command line PHP based wrapper around fcsh shell. It works both in *nix and Windows. You can grab it from the downloads section of the flash-automation project. Just unzip it, enter the directory and run “php fcshc.php” in the shell to get the basic usage help.
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