Dynamic Content Adobe Flash Tutorials

Simple PHP Live Counter For your Flash Movie
This tutorial shows you how to create a simple counter that you can use anywhere in your flash movie. The most obvious place is for either the intro or the main part of the Flash Movie that you are working with. You can also use this in other parts of your movie as well.

E-mail in Flash the Easy way
This tutorial shows you how to set up a form based e-mail system from within your Flash movie. It describes how to set up the basic form components in the Flash movie as well as giving you the basic knowledge of how to set up either a PHP, Perl, or ASP script to handle the e-mail and have it sent to an address that you specify.

Loading External Symbols During Playback
If you want to create flash 5 movies that contain dynamic content (i.e. are different each time they are viewed) then there are two major approaches to take.

Sending Customized Flash E-cards
This tutorial explains how to send out customized Flash e-cards to anyone you want, or allow anyone that visits your site to do the same. This tutorial will allow you to set up a much simplified version of say the online Hallmark or Blue mountain e-cards application. This tutorial was designed to be as simple as possible while still being powerful enough to be used as a commercial application. This Tutorial use's only 2 simple php scripts and it will automatically create text files to save all of your data.

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.

JavaScript Pop-up windows (no external scripts) in Flash - a definitive guide
This tutorial describes a method of using JavaScript within your Flash movie without using any external JavaScript in the html your movie is embedded in. For the example we are going to be creating pop-up windows. This tutorial starts off with the basic method involved then goes into some more advanced effects. And finally finishes off by describing how to dynamically update the movie located in your pop-up with JavaScript from your parent movie.

Creating a morePower DMC in Flash
How to create morePower DMC files.

MySQL/PHP Driven Flash Guestbook
How to set up a guestbook that stores entries in a MySQL database. Includes all source files. Great first project for flash designers who are learning to implement back-end data systems.

Basic Flash MX Web Cam
This tutorial will show you how to use dynamic image loading in Flash MX to create a simple web cam type inline image updater.

Proxy Scripting in Flash - Loading External Data
This tutorial/article attempts to explain one method of loading external data (different server/domain) into a Flash movie. This allows for constantly changing updated data to be included in your flash movie that is based on an external data source.

Flash MX slide show
This tutorial will show you how to set up a slide show uploading pictures and presenting them using different ways. What is different to the slideshow presented as a template in Flash MX (After creating this file I found out that Flash MX has a slideshow template)? The big difference is that we do not have to create one frame for one slide but one frame for a series of slides, which we control by actionscript.

The Ultimate Slide Show MX
I have created a new slide show with several more advanced features and eliminated some pitfalls:1. a dynamic menu, which can be externally manipulated;2. automatic slide advancement;3. preloading of slides for individual frames;4. complete management of slides from external files.

A Simple XML-Based Searchable Database
This tutorial is about creating a simple to a limited extent searchable database with XML and integrating it into Flash. "XML is the phuture of the web", somebody once wrote to me and that is what I am learning wherever something is written about XML. There are a number of ways to parse XML such as XSL or javascript.

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.

A Memopad, using the new MX Shared Object
This tutorial shows you how to make use of a new feature of Flash MX, the shared object. At the same time you will learn how to use radiobuttons as event handlers like real buttons.The shared object is a new feature of Flash MX and works like a cookie. When you type text into a textfield and this text is defined as a shared object, the text will be remembered even you close the file. This is also true when a file containing one or more shared objects is on a server.

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.

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.

Integrating Flash and mySQL
This is just a basic tutorial on how to display data in a mySQL database in flash quickly and easily. You can develop this code further to create dynamic Flash movies that feed off a mySQL database. In this example I'm using an eCard project I'm working on. The code will connect to my database to get the card information (the to, from, and message) and display this data in the flash movie. Also note that you should have dynamic text fields named as each of the variables your want to display in your flash movie.

mx php poll system
The poll presented here can be added to every web site using PHP as scripting language and a mySQL database.

Dynamic Text: LoadVars and HTML
Often, when you have large amounts of text to display, you'll want to use a scrolling text box. That means you'll have to make the text field "dynamic". That, in turn, means you can't do much formatting of the text field within Flash.Fortunately, Flash can interpret HTML tags. You can use these to create pre-formatted text files and include hyper links.