flash data integration: i am creating a dynamic site that pulls all of its content from and access
database. i would like to make the entire page in flash. i have never used
flash to pull any content from a datbase before. does any one know how to do
this ? or know of a good tutorial? i can only seem to find tutorials for flash
8 or flash 5, nothing for mx2004.

it seems like every thing i try doesnt work and no one knows how to help me.

feeling very discouraged,
-furley

Flash has nothing to do with getting data from an Access database.

You need to focus on either ASP or ASP.Net, a scripting language for the
server script either JScript or VBScript, middleware usually ADO or ADO.Net
and finally SQL. All of these items go together in a server side script that
could work with non-Flash or Flash client interfaces. You should find many
tutorials on the internet with these items as it has been done for nearly a
decade.

You also can use ColdFusion.

For Flash, you need to learn LoadVars Actionscript class if you plan to
communicate data in the URL Variables format or XML Actionscript class if
you want to use XML data format. It will not really matter to Flash what is
on the server side as it will only be sending and receiving data in either
of those two data formats (URL Variables or XML).

If you want to look at some Using VBScript, ASP, ADO and an OLEDB Connection
examples I use for seminars in Web database you can take a look here:
http://www.hosfordusa.com/ClickSystems/courses/webdb/. However they lack
Flash example but would work "as is" with a Flash example.

Once you look at some of those options, you can then form more specific
questions for this forum and especially with using the LoadVars and XML
Actionscript classes or the XML connector Flash component.

--
Lon Hosford
www.lonhosford.com
Flash, Actionscript and Flash Media Server examples:
http://flashexamples.hosfordusa.com
May many happy bits flow your way!
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i am creating a dynamic site that pulls all of its content from and access
database. i would like to make the entire page in flash. i have never used
flash to pull any content from a datbase before. does any one know how to do
this ? or know of a good tutorial? i can only seem to find tutorials for
flash
8 or flash 5, nothing for mx2004.

it seems like every thing i try doesnt work and no one knows how to help
me.

feeling very discouraged,
-furley

Nothing difficult to integrate Flash with Database
U should know only ASP and Flash to work on. U can use ASP to load data
from database.
loadVariablesNum("fpath name",0,"POST");

the above function is used in Flash to communicate to ASP inorder to retrive
data.ASP code is also very simple to write if u know VB.

Its easier to do than you think. Some great tutorials out there for it on
flashkit.com. Follow the basics then build up your app. But you need to
concentrate on the ASP side as thats the most difficult. The Flash side is easy
(see lwaves post) you just use the loadVariablesNum command in actionscript and
send data to the ASP with a query string. Go to w3schools.com for some good
basic tutorials on ASP if you have never programmed with it, once you have read
these you should be able to see where to go from there. Also be wary of the
limitations of Access. It has loads of concurrency problems, bear this in mind
when developing. Unfortunately not all of us have the luxury of using a SQL
database!!!