Building with Flash and MySQL

Building a blog is cool, but building a blog with Flash, MySQL, and PHP is so much cooler. Scott guides you through two days of coding and querying.

Gilbertson, Scott. Webmonkey (2003). Design>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Flash

Connecting Macromedia Flash and PHP

Many web developers rely heavily on a popular combination of open source software to develop and deploy their websites and applications. This combination is often known as LAMP—an acronym for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. In this article, you will use a LAMP environment to create a PHP-based Rich Internet Application.

Hall, Robert M. Adobe (2004). Design>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Flash

Getting a Handle on Web Services in Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004

So you have heard that Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 has built-in support for web services. Great! But is this unconditionally true? Are all web services now supported in Flash?

Fleischer, Vera. Adobe (2004). Design>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Flash

Macromedia Flash MX and PHP

Communicating with PHP (or any other server-side script) from Macromedia Flash has become much easier with the introduction of the LoadVars object in Macromedia Flash MX. Here's a sample in which I use a MySQL database (containing friends' e-mail and phone information and a picture and caption if we have one), a PHP script to access that information, and Macromedia Flash to present it. I'll go through each of the steps I went through to create it.

Triolo, Helen. Adobe (2004). Design>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Flash