Backend Integration Adobe Flash Tutorials

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.

Loading variables from a text field and Editing/Updating the values via Perl
This tutorial basically shows you how to load variables into a Flash movie (Been there done that - what's new) In the same movie you can also edit those same variables and have them be displayed within the Flash movie immediately. By using a really simple Perl script you can update the variables with one simple button click. In this way you can have information passed to your movie dynamically and update that information at anytime.

How to Make Flash & PHP Talk
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.

Setting up a MySQL database: for Flash designers
A basic guide for flash designers who are looking to set up a MySQL database for the first time.

Data Binding in Flash MX
So you've ventured into Flash Remoting. You've setup your application, your components & maybe you've even pulled down data from the server. But now you have to make your data do something. With nearly two dozen components in the Macromedia UI and Charting Component Sets, it may seem as though you'll have to learn nearly two dozen different methods of adding data to a component. Lucky for you, Macromedia thought ahead and standardized the process to help make Flash MX a true Rapid Application Development tool.

Building Flash clients for Web Services with Soap and Flash MX
In this tutorial we are going to build a Flash Language Translator. The language translator will be able to translate between any two languages. The Language translation service was chosen because it's basic, yet provides an easy way to get into web services and is something you can use on your site right away. The tutorial also shows the basic's of using components in a Flash movie and loading dynamic content into them.

addendum to Joseph Miller's tutorial
Joseph Miller's tutorial on 'How to Make Flash talk to PHP' probably worked flawlessly in PHP 4.0, but I had some trouble with PHP 4.3.0 Here is the updated scriptA.php

Simple forms and ecards
As you know it's not a simple task to setup a database on a web site to handle submissions from visitors.It calls a Javascript from the html form. That javascript call loads all the variable form the HTML page that are needed to make any form work.

Text Tweening - Size and Fade
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create two kinds of text tweening in flash MX.