Re: FLASH: Non-Generator Driven Database Question

[Malte Koehrer]

Hello ComposiMo,


Friday, July 21, 2000, 12:15:21 PM, you wrote:


Cac> Hello everyone...  I have a not-so-simple question (at least it isnt simple 

Cac> to me)... I was wondering if there is any way that Flash can read information 

Cac> from a Database such as Access without using Generator?. I will need it to 

Cac> read several different fields, of just one item at a time, and then display 

Cac> each field in a certain text field... also, on of the text fields will need 

Cac> to be able to scroll dynamically based on the amount of text in the item 

Cac> description. Is this possible? and if so, does anyone know where there is a 

Cac> link to a tutorial on this type of thing? it doesn't have to be Access, it is 

Cac> just the first one that popped into my head.  Also, it will not need to write 

Cac> to any file, and it is going into a Projector, so cgi really isn't an option 

Cac> (i dont think)... It just needs to read and display.  Any help on this will 

Cac> be greatly appreciated :-)


Cac> Regards,


Cac>        John Ward

Cac> www.DigitalRodder.com 


You need some backend work. Something like:


Write a php3/perl script - both languages support easy database access

and  read  from  the  db.  Output  this to flash. There's no simple db

access diretly from flash at least none I know. For little experiments

the flashdb database may be enough. That's a little db engine with any

serious functions that just outputs in a way flash understands.


maltek


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