macromedia flash flash remoting: I am working on a project that is turning a HTML-based website
using a SQL database into a Flash website with dynamically-driven data
that is updated constantly

Is this compatible?

I know Flash Remoting is more current, but as I am new to database integration
w/ Flash, I'm
confused if this SQL website will be compatible with a fully running Flash site

i'm pretty sure it is. I'm kinda new to remoting .. but I have a cf datasource hooked to SQL server via a flash movie for testing. works fine ....

Yeah, it seems I need PHP or ColdFusion to
act as "middleware" to work betweent the two

thanks

nah you can use .NET as well .... check out Tom Muck's Flash Remoting
Definitive Guide ...(page 48)
it refers to a an add on server component (DLL) for .NET.

it is a little more work and you have to download something .. but it can be
done with .NET. It is just more work.

you also must have the .NET SDK installed

check out:
http://macromedia.com/software/trial_download

Sorry I don't know the exact link to the .NEt extension, I can tell you though
that CF is a lot easier to use ....

good luck.

Originally posted by: dr_bozak
i'm pretty sure it is. I'm kinda new to remoting .. but I have a cf datasource
hooked to SQL server via a flash movie for testing. works fine ....

Using an application server such as ColdFusion is by far the most frequently
used method of hooking a SQL Server instance to Flash. I've written many
applications that do just this. However, much less used (at least at this
point) is the RDBMs Resolver component in Flash that will hook Flash to a SQL
Server backend. I'm not 100% on this, but I'm fairly sure this is done without
any "middleware" such as ColdFusion. Look up this component in the docs for
more instance. FYI - it is only available in FlashMX 2004 Professional.