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This tutorial gives you some basic infomation about PHP and how to setup PHP to work with Flash.

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Intro to PHP & Flash
This tutorial gives you some basic information about PHP and how to setup PHP to work with Flash.

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I had to learn a lot of this on my own via trial and error since there was little available on the net that adequately explained how it works. I'm hoping this guide will save someone the hours of hammering that I spent. Once you get a few fundamental things down, I think you will find, as I have, that a flash/PHP combination is easy to set up and offers a lot of flexibility. I included a very simple flash movie and script to go along with this guide. I recommend downloading and briefly going over all of the files before reading on.

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Intro to Flash
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Intro. to Flash MX Design
Ok, im going to attempt to write a tutorial on using 'Macromedia FLASH MX' for Windows. Im using Windows ME, And I also use Windows XP and I dont think the program differs between Windows OS'. However, MACINTOSH maybe different. Also, if you're using Linux/Unix - I dont even know if macromedia makes FLASH for that OS. But be sure to check and make sure.

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This tutorial is going to show you a very basic method of sending information from Flash to an external PHP script. This is merely a primer to get you working with using Flash for forms and dynamic content. The actual code for this tutorial can be used IN lower versions of Flash, but the actual process is written for Flash MX 2004.

Calling PHP Functions from Flash
This tutorial assumes that you already have expirience with PHP or other programming languages. In this tutorial I will introduce PHP's dynamic function construction in combination with Actionscript. This combination allows you to execute various tasks in Flash with only one PHP script.

Search with PHP Flash tutorial
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mySQL and PHP - Login and Registration - Saving Movie Clip ('s) Position
For this Tutorial you will have to have some basic knowledge of PHP and mySQL, hopefully you won't need much though. It is also assumed that you have a good understanding of Flash 5 Actionscript. What this tutorial basically does is to show you how to set up a table in a mySQL database, then using PHP (or asp with a few minor changes) manipulate that table and interact with Flash.

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How to Send Variables Between Flash and PHP
I had to learn a lot of this on my own via trial and error since there was little available on the net that adequately explained how it works. I'm hoping this guide will save someone the hours of hammering that I spent. Once you get a few fundamental things down, I think you will find, as I have, that a flash/PHP combination is easy to set up and offers a lot of flexibility. I included a very simple flash movie and script to go along with this guide. I recommend downloading and briefly going over all of the files before reading on.

Playing Background Loops Continuosly Across Scenes
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Create a Comment Form with Flash, PHP, XML and MySQL
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Using Local Shared Objects in Flash MX: The Flash Cookies
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Macromedia Flash 4 & 5 Tips
In this Tutorial you will learn the very essential, and not that essential tips for Macromedia Flash 5 (Also 4). The tutorial has been split into four parts: Drawing, Animation, Tracing and Optimizing. Flash 5 and Flash 4 are packed with features for keeping your file sizes down and here you will learn how. Please feel free to email me for further questions.

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Basics of Using Text in Flash
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Using Local Shared Objects in Flash MX
Before Flash MX, it was pretty tricky to "remeber" the data in a Flash movie - it could be done with a standard browser cookie, which was hard to implement for someone with intermediate Flash skills, using a 3rd party script such as PHP or ASP or (in offline Flash applications) with the undocumented fscommand "save". Flash MX's Shared objects allow to store and retrieve the information within a Flash movie easily.

Pictures transformation
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Drag & Drop In Flash
Dragging and dropping is used everywhere. Not only in general file moving and placing, but also within games. It my be necessary to move a certain item elsewhere for a puzzle or adventure game. We're going to take a look at the basics of dragging and dropping in Flash. It is a very simple effect to conquer. It only requires a few lines or Actionscript to work, and I shall explain what the Actionscript is telling Flash to do. If you would like to see an example of what you can create, click here.

Flash, Javascript & Media Player ActiveX
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Intro to PHP & Flash

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