Backend Integration Adobe Flash Tutorials

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

Creating a 3D firearm in Swift
How to make an accurate 3D model of a gun from a picture to use in your more violent flash creations :) very easy.

Flash Cookies
This tutorial shows you how to make cookies in flash and redirect based upon their value.

Flash Data Binding Tutorial
This tutorial will create a dropdown menu of image file names located in a directory on the server using data binding. When the user selects an image from the dropdown menu, the picture will load from the server. We will be using the XMLConnector, label, and loader which are all built-in flash components.

Using Remote Files To Set Vars
This one is fairly simple - but can save alot of time and hassle in the future (if you have a continous project, i.e website) it will allow you to edit text (that would normally be typed directly into a textbox in flash) via a text file or any file for that matter.

Setting up a MySQL Database: for Flash Designers
This tutorial is basically meant for the average designer who's work resides on some host that he/she is paying for. If you are looking to set up MySQL on a server of your own, you need to consult the fellows at MySQL and wrestle the manual. If you are using a free hosting service, they most likely do not support MySQL at all and you need to look into other hosting options.

Using Local Shared Objects in Flash MX: The Flash Cookies
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. Lets see how it works.

Philter's Flash_XML Tutorial in Flash MX
In the current age of technology, with all of the cool toys and gadgets that are available, all of these things exist for one purpose...to allow us to more easily access information. Today, we are able to acquire information more quickly and easily than we has ever been possible in the past. Largely, this has to do with the internet and the fact that you can access information anywhere in the world from anywhere else in the world in literally the blink of an eye.

SharedObject and You in Flash MX
This tutorial covers SharedObject. SharedObject is a kind of cookie for Flash. Though, SharedObject is much more powerful. SharedObject isn't just a way of saving mere strings on the client's hard disk, you can store texts, strings, numbers and even objects.

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.

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

Intro to Arrays
An Array is just a computer term for a: List. Arrays are extremely useful in Flash, and there are numerous uses for Arrays in other programs. The aim of this tutorial is to learn how to use Arrays. There are four examples in this tutorial that show you how to use Arrays in slightly different ways. This tutorial goes through all of them in detail, explaining all the ActionScript.

Loading External Images using Flash MX 2004 Components
This tutorial shows you how to load external images into Flash using an Array (list) and Flash MX 2004 Components. This means that the pictures are not loaded preloaded into Flash. Therefore the Flash Movie does not have to load all the pictures before you can start to view the first picture. If you preload all the images into FLash there can be a long wait before the user can view the first picture.

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

Send Information to Flash with JavaScript
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to send any information to Flash with JavaScript. This info could be a variable or a text message. There are two examples in this tutorial. One sends a text message and the other a variable. For those unfamiliar with programming: a variable is something that 'varies'. It could be anything you want.

Communication between Flash Movies
This tutorial shows you how to send information or instructions from one Flash Move to another on the same web page. There is theoretically no limit to what information can be sent between each Flash Movie. You can control and communicate between any two Flash Movies on the same page or on different pages. It is also be possible to communicate between more than two Flash Movies.

Communication between Flash Movies: Pop Ups
This tutorial shows you how to send information between different Flash Movies in different Windows (different web pages) such as: Pop Up Windows or other web pages. Theoretically there is no limit to what information can be sent between each Flash Movie, and you can control a Flash Movie on another web page, from your main movie on your main page.

Passing variables to flash
Tutorial teaches you passing variables from html.

Using CGI Forms in Flash
This tutorial will show you how to use a CGI script that not only sends the form information but returns information back to the Flash 4 movie instead of sending the user to an html page.

Keyword search using MySQL / PostgreSQL / MSSQL / InterBase / ODBC, PHP and Flash 4
This tutorial will walk you step by step into creating a queryable database field based on keywords. It's possibilities are endless, we used it to answer general questions about our site, to display help files for shell commands, Linux software title descriptions and more.