shadowayex Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 I was wondering, if I wanted to create a game using flash and actionscript, would actionscript do databasing as well, or would I need PHP to do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingy Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 As far as I know you do need some form of external databasing. If you google flash actionscript database all sorts come up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 ActionScript has its own form of "AJAX", so I think it's capable of calling a PHP or other server-side script to put and retrieve information from databases. I forget the library name that does that, but I think it had "URL" in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 You can use getURL or loadVariables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 URLRequest(), that's what it was. It's part of ActionScript 3.0. It can be used like AJAX to load content from a file on the server, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowayex Posted July 29, 2008 Author Share Posted July 29, 2008 Alright, I'll take a look at those while I'm looking at ActionScript places. By the way, if anyone has come across a good ActionScript tutorial or reference, please let me know. But I think I'll be ok with googling for the most part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 The best ActionScript reference is in Flash, open Flash and hit F1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowayex Posted July 30, 2008 Author Share Posted July 30, 2008 I can't afford commercial Flash programs, so is that in every Flash program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 I don't know of any other Flash editor than Flash itself. Which one are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowayex Posted July 30, 2008 Author Share Posted July 30, 2008 I don't know of any other Flash editor than Flash itself. Which one are you using?I've got one called LiveSwif. I'll look it it's help files for references and whatnot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 You can use the online version, it's just a lot easier to use inside Flash itself. I'm not a huge fan of the Adobe website.http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flash/There are links on that page to other versions of Flash if LiveSwif is trying to coincide with a particular version, but check the different references for Actionscript versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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