Backend Integration Adobe Flash Tutorials

Create a catalog in flash
We will see how we can create a "little" product's catalog using Flash, Php and MySql.

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 :)

Sending Email from Flash using PHP
This tutorial you should know if your server allows you to send mail through PHP.

Flash Player Menu
A tutorial on flash player menu.

BitmapData.threshold howto
How to use the BitmapData.threshold with the new Flash Player 8 for creating image transitions.

Export JPEG with Flash/PHP
Using BitmapData.draw and BitmapData.getPixel to export the current swf as jpeg.

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

Using LoadMovie
In this tutorial we're going to take a look at the function loadMovie. LoadMovie is a very nifty function, though things can get in a huge mess quickly. You often get questions on the forum about this topic, so that's why this tutorial has been created. In this tutorial we're not only going to take a look at the theory of loadMovie, we're also going to create a picture loader.

Working With Flash MX 2004 and PHP
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.

Loading an external movie
There are two methods of loading external movies into Flash: Loading into an empty movie clip (mc) or loading into another level.

Live Analogue Clock
This is a real-time clock. It uses a very simple ASP script, a bit of ActionScript, and some easy Flash.

Hit Counter using PHP & Flash
Learn how to create a hit counter in Flash with the aid of PHP.

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

Loading External Images
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to create a Flash Movie which loads an Array of external images such as Jpegs or Gifs. These images would then be loaded individually into the Flash Movie as and when the user wished to look at them. This makes the Flash Movie much smaller and reduces the pre-load time for the Flash Movie. The individual images would each have there own pre-loader so that there is a small delay before loading individual images but no long wait at the beginning of the Movie.

Attaching Movie Clips using ActionScript
The first thing to understand about this process is that you need to store all of your site's resources in one main folder on your hard drive and identify it in Dreamweaver to ensure that the links you set on your computer will work when your site is uploaded to a server.

Loading Text From a File
In this tutorial we will learn how to load text from a file.

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.

Loading an external mp3 file
Learn how to load external mp3 files in your Flash movie, so that you can have background music in your site or anything else you imagine!

Loading External Text
This tutorial would teach you how to read external text files into your flash movie, the benefit of this feature makes it possible for you to update the content of your flash website without editing the flash file itself, but just editing text files that has the text of the website.

Flash Detection on IE w/o relying on VBScript
Internet Explorer's support of the Navigator object is limited. It seems a lot of programmers try to implement VBScript via javascript and pass variables back to the javascript. Seems cumbersome and often doesn't work. Here's a new way.