Look at the Flash XML.load or Flash XML.sendAndLoad methods and their
examples. They will guide you to the Flash side of receiving or sending and
receiving XML data.
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/00002872.html http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/00002879.html The serverside receiving and generating the XML will depend on your server
side libraries.
A nice side is that in order test loading XML you can create a sample XML
file and use just the XML.load to get the practice. Or you can create a
basic serverside script that just returns XML such as using Response.write
in ASP and then you can test the XML.sendAndLoad without parsing the send
data until you use the XML parsers say in ASP. The rest is then you need to
deal with your database.
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Lon Hosford
www.lonhosford.com Flash, Actionscript and Flash Media Server examples:
http://flashexamples.hosfordusa.com May many happy bits flow your way!
[quoted text, click to view] "baggyman" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi hope you can help.
> Firstly I'm new to using Flash to access info from a database, but not
> Flash
> or Databases though.
> I have an MS SQL Server Database which holds my shopping cart info. Each
> product has an associated product image.
> What I'm trying to do:
> Allow users to search for products by region (this site is selling bottles
> of
> wine) then display a product image in a horizontal scrolling gallery. As
> the
> user hovers over a particular product more details are shown below. Users
> can
> then enter the number of bottles they would like and add them to my
> basket.
> (alternatively click on a link to go to my existing cart page which allows
> users to update their basket)
> There are over 1,200 products to search through.
>
> I thought about manually creating some XML files which contain the
> relevant
> search results but this means that when updating the product info - eg
> moving
> to a different region - someone would have to manually chaneg the xml
> file.
>
> Surely the result scan be created dynamically along with teh relevant
> image
> gallery & more product info.
>
> How can this be done?
>