flash data integration: I want to design a list of wanted presents for a party in flash so that if
guests tick/select a present then it must become greyed out or unavailable for
the next guest so that they know it has already been selected/bought. Also, I
would like to know how to possibly make it a log-in site so every guest has
their own area. Does anyone know how I can do this in flash? Any help much
appreciated! Talitha

I'm currently going through a great book that will teach you how to do this.
It's called PHP 5 for Flash (Friends of Ed is the publisher). There is an
entire section devoted to creating a login section of a flash site.

As for greying out presents that have already been selected.. I would imagine
that you could store a variable in a database about whether or not the present
has been selected (could be a boolean - true or false) then load this data into
flash where you would have conditional statements that render the present movie
clips accordingly.

Then, you would also have a PHP script (and an instance of flash LoadVars)
that gets called when a present is selected that changes its entry in the
database to "selected" (or true, or whatever).

It's a good bit of work, but check out this book. You can definitely do it.

Heres the book on amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Foundation-PHP-5-Flash/dp/1590594665/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-2
755177-0118245?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1178894046&sr=8-1