SirPaladin

There are some string functions for you to use. Search in the PHP manual. I don`t remember the names of the functions. :)EDIT: Try here.

Macromedia Dreamweaver FTW.

Hello!I`m a wannabe PHP programmer. I joined a few days ago.W3Schools.com is the website that first taught me HTML.

using php to get the database data then convert it to XMl then read the XML with actionscript is a pretty intensive process that certainly isn't the most efficient method.You can pass data directly to flash from PHP and vice versa, why not do that? Or are there limitaions I am unaware of (I have only passed small pieces of data).

no necessarily true. the discussion board could be built using Flash Remoting which would give it the ability to interact with a database. Of course, using Flex2 would be an even better idea too.

I read many times about Flash message boards being an area in which many try to progress. I myself decided to learn some client/server actionscript, the first (failed) attempt being generating an XML using PHP (with database queries), and processing in in Flash. After a little simplifying, though, it worked... sorta.Last night I barely slept, thinking over and over of this problem (I should get a life, eh? ), and by reading my Flash book, I understood that inserting data into XML files with Flash is... possible. That`d grant me a way of trying it!But, of course, I`ll have to hope Flash is fast enough, and that I won`t give up. >__>Anyone else tried/though of this?