Flash with PHP - A beautiful combinationby Jini M R (Software Programmer, Excellone Technologies)
PHP (Personal Home Page) confirmed its position
as one of the fastest growing technologies for creating dynamic
websites. PHP was designed specifically for the Web, with ease-of-use,
reliability and performance capabilities to help people get more
from their sites.
Flash is widely getting popular as a tool for creating
interactive multimedia presentations. It has impressive interface
and interactivity .
PHP can be used as an intermediate between the
database and the flash interface. Only few articles and guides are
available on the advantages and the power of this development area.
Interested users can explore this area by studying and experimenting
various cases.
Beginners need to know the basics of Flash with
PHP. The Flash Action Scripting Books and the PHP books can be used
for experimenting with both the technologies. A flash designer who
wants to explore the programming aspect of PHP ought to study the
basics of PHP.
A PHP programmer with little knowledge of Flash
can explore flash from the inbuilt tutorials of Flash.
Steps to create a database driven program with Flash with PHP
- Create a Database to use in your form. The database can be created
in My SQL and PostgreSQL. Tables can be created according to one's
need.
- Create a basic interactive flash interface for the application.
Be sure to add textboxes for displaying values from the tables,
give its name properly, specify that they are dynamically loaded
and associate the frame action 'GetURL' to the PHP the program
you will be creating.
- Create a PHP file to do the database handling. Database Handling
in PHP: In the PHP file, write codes for connecting to the database,
taking table values to variables. Save and publish the movie.
If each step is doing well, the movie will display values from
the database.
Flash with PHP is a fine blend of two emerging
technologies. Creating a database with them would prove to be very
profitable.
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