SirPaladin Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smiles Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Flash message board is more complex than normal message board by PHP and SQLany messages must be converted into symbol and for only Ascii char Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skemcin Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Flash message board is more complex than normal message board by PHP and SQLany messages must be converted into symbol and for only Ascii char 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirPaladin Posted August 25, 2006 Author Share Posted August 25, 2006 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.My idea would be PHP and MySQL, with the databased converted to XML using a PHP script, and then parsed by ActionScript.I haven`t got the slightest idea of Flex. I only heard of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aspnetguy Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skemcin Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Try this:http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/quickstar...d_actionscript/andhttp://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/flex_php.html[just a thought] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirPaladin Posted August 26, 2006 Author Share Posted August 26, 2006 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).I don`t know if it has limitations, but the one thing that surely has got limitations is my Flash manual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snubby Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 I've seen it done, and it was awesome (the site is no longer up ). I wish you good luck, you sound like a great programmer and I have faith in you. If you need any help with the Actionscript aspect of things, I may be some help, but not with PHP. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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