A Simple XML-Based Searchable Database (part 2): URLs and Frame numbers
This tutorial is about adding URLs to buttons or frame numbers to ´gotoAndPlay´ or other actions using xml. The tutorial is a continuation of the previously published tutorial ´A Simple XML-Based Searchable Database´. The previous tutorial was about creating a database using XML. I will also discuss some parts of the script again and this time in more detail. In particular I want to point to one mistake in the previous tutorial. This tutorial requires FlashMX.

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XML-Based Searchable Database (part 3): list matches, preloader and more...
This tutorial is part 3 of the tutorial series about creating a simple database with XML and integrating it into Flash. This part shows you how to do advanced search using more complex XML files.

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Working With XML
Sometimes you need to pass a flash file information. Perhaps you're making a flash-based photo gallery or an mp3 player. Maybe you want to use flash to parse server information. Whatever you need to do, it may make the most sense to use XML to pass your data to flash. Using XML is good because it's easy to parse as flash has built-in XML tools. In order to use an XML file, you need flash to do 2 things: read it and parse it. Here's an example of the code you'd need to read in an XML file (called info.xml) and parse it.

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Flash 5 and XML
When Flash 5 came out, I was impressed by a lot of the new features Macromedia had put into their product, but none so much as the addition of the XML ActionScript object. The XML Object allows you to pull in xml data and display it within your flash movie. Take a look at my example below (I pulled the xml content from moreover.com. They have tons of free feeds to all kinds of free news and content).

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Create a Comment Form with Flash, PHP, XML and MySQL
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to use Flash, PHP and MySQL together. We'll build a simple comment form that takes entries and stores them in a database. We'll use PHP to retrieve the entries and format the comments into XML form.

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Simple Flash XML Photogallery
This tutorial you will have created a bare-bones flash photo gallery which will look something like this. The thumbnails, images and titles are loaded and setup dynamically with data provided by a xml file.

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Movable XML Image Gallery
This tutorial will teach you how to create moveable XML Image Gallery. This is improvement of our existed XML Gallery. The pictures are loaded from external sources, XML.

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Flash FAQ - XML packets and XPAth
The Flash-XML FAQ aims to provide a definitive source for common questions about Flash and its interaction with XML (and XML datasources).

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Retrieve Data From XML File
Tutorial on how to load external source, XML, into your Flash movie. XML is widely used markup language that enable sharing of structured data across platforms.

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Loading XML data using ActionScript 3.0
ActionScript 3.0 provides new powerful methods for dealing with XML data that make it possible to easily filter and search the content of a XML file.

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Flash XML processing
Flash XML processing is not a complicated task at all. In this article I will show you how to load and process XML files via actionscript.

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Creating a simple Guest Book in Flash
This tutorial shows you how to create a simple Guest book in Flash. This Guest book is simple, efficient, fast, and easy to implement. Their are no complicated database or xml issues to worry about. One swf, one script, and one text file. Put it together and you'll have a great Guest book for your site. In this example we use a PHP script but after you understand how it works it should be fairly easy to write the same script in Perl, ASP, or Cold Fusion. With a couple of modifications and some additions to the non-existent administration side you'll be able to create almost anything you want out of it.

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Creating an XML Slideshow in Flash
All the contents of our slideshow will be controlled through an XML file so that you can updated your images and their description without going back to your FLA, the XML file will also control the speed of the slideshow.

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XML Menu
This Flash tutorial will show you how to create buttons using xml for the text.

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Working with XML
Sometimes you need to pass a flash file information. Perhaps you're making a flash-based photo gallery or an mp3 player. Maybe you want to use flash to parse server information.

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Simple Scrolling Movie Clip
Here is a tutorial based around my "Simple Scrollbar" turorial but this is horizontal scrolling of a MovieClip. It is also very simple and uses little code, employing the same globalToLocal method.

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Using Flash with Zinc v2.5 to Convert and Save a CSV file to an XML file
This tutorial will enable you to load a CSV of any size and convert it into XML data and then save that XML data to disk.

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import Data from XML in a desired font Style.
This can be useful for importing the XML data to flash in a desired font style, you can use this code directly and you can change the labels in XML and keep your labels and its ready to use.

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XML Table Constructor Kit
Learn how to dynamically generate a multi-column table using XML template file.

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AS3 XML Slideshow Tutorial
Learn how to create cool slideshow using ActionScript 3.0 and XML.

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Creating an Advance Flash Image Gallery
This tutorial will teach you how to create an advanced scrolling gallery using XML. All of our assets will be dynamically loaded and the gallery could be fully customized using the XML file.

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Horizontal 3D Carousel in Actionscript 3
The procedure to get this done is by Creating an XML file with the image path and the link data in it. Then calling this xml data into flash. Placing the images in a 3D circle Providing the circular movement for the same Functions for 'on click' and 'on rollover'

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Halo 2 XML Application
This guide will teach you how to create a dynamic application to dispaly Halo 2 XML feeds from Bungie.net

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XML: Finding nodes by name
Ever have so many children in a node, and hate to use: "nextSibling" 16 times? Here are 3 simple functions that will brighten your data.

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Using an XML file to load Chart components
You can use any file with a .xml extension as the data source for the chart.

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Flash and XML
Learn how to create a flash phonebook using the power of xml with flash.

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Loading XML data in Flash using ActionScript
XML can be used to load external data in Flash to provide an easy method for structuring content so that it is easy to understand, process, and update.

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21 ways to make your Flash based site suck
I'm not a fan of 'Flash based' sites and the main reason for that is barely no-one does them properly. So here's a list of 21 ways to make your Flash based site suck, so that the next time you build a Flash based site you can really hit that nail on the head.

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XML Random Image Slideshow
A tutorial that shows you how to create a random images slideshow. The images are loaded from XML external source.

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Creating An XML Music Player Using AS3
This tutorial will teach you how to create an interactive music player powered by XML using AS3.

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Build a XML Driven Accordion Image Gallery
The following Flex tutorial will show you how to build an accordion image gallery populated using XML datas.

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OOP RSS via ActionScript 2.0
RSS keeps growing in popularity, and so we find ourselves playing with RSS feeds in new and interesting ways... or perhaps it's the other way around?!?! Adobe (Formerly Macromedia) Flash is moving more and more towards XML and OOP paradigms. So I've taken it upon myself to write some classes for parsing through Flash's XML to get RSS feeds. O, and the zip file has the necessary files, the CSS files etc.

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Bringing SOAP to Flash 5
Flash 5 has support for XML communications over HTTP. However, sadly enough, there is no support for setting HTTP headers. The 'SOAPAction' HTTP header is however essential if you want to communicate with SOAP-compliant webservices. And what is very popular these days ? Yes, SOAP-based webservices... And why are they popular ? Because they allow you to access business logic functionalities (for example doing a query to retrieve flight availability or the wheather in your city or live stock quotes or ...) over the Internet in a structured form (in other words without having to do screen- or HTML- scraping).

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Create an intelligent XML image Gallery and Slideshow
In this article you will learn how to build an image gallery that will load images from a web server. I decide to call it Intelligent because you don't need to configure any XML or flash file. Just put the Flash movie and the images on a server and they will be loaded automatically. Nice ah?

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Actionscript 3 based Mini Audio player / MP3 player in Flash
We will be covering a lot of topics whilst creating mp3 player, topics include, List Component Loading external XML data to list component Sound, Sound Channel and Sound Transform class Add Event Listener method FLV Components, such as Play / Pause / Stop / Mute / Back button / Forward button / Slider. Volume Control

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Basic Flash MX/MySQL chat
In this tutorial we will learn how to build a simple chat using Flash MX, PHP and MySQL. No xml socket connection needed, only a good web connection :)

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Simple Percentage Bar Preloader
Creating a percentage based preload bar scene with only 4 lines of code.

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Create a Dynamic Bar Graph Generator Using XML + AS3
In this tutorial, we'll create a bar graph generator using XML and AS3.

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Text Fading Animation
Learn how to create a simple but highly effective flash based text fading animation.

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PT Product Drag and Zoom
This is an extremely simple tool that incorporates 2 fla files to view products or pictures, move them around and zoom in and out. It's based on 2 files so that you only need to create one template to perform all the actions in case you are using this script on a site with many different images to zoom.

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