RE: FLASH: Flash and databank

[mbain]

You can get a direct link between Flash and a database, no need for intermediary

text files. FLasg interact with an ASP script (via gets and posts) and the ASP

script interact with the database. Myabe i misuderstood ? But why do you want to

use intermediary text files if flash can talk to the databse directly via the

ASP script ??


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Paul Watson <

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Subject:  RE: FLASH: Flash and databank





As far as I know there are two ways you can go about this. One, buy

Macromedia Generator and use its dB capabilities to interact with flash.

Two, use ASP/CGI/etc to create the text files dynamially ( based on

responses - get's and post's from within a flash movie ). With the ASP

route you cannot get a direct link between Flash and the dB. You need to

use intermediary text files for the data, but the actual data requests

can be direct to your ASP page using forms within Flash 4.


There are some articles about this at http://www.flashwave.co.uk/


Hope this helps a bit, all I can say is read up about it, its not

immediately obvious.


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 -----Original Message-----

From:     Anil Hamal [

Anil [dot] Hamalcrealogix [dot] com (mailto:Anil [dot] Hamalcrealogix [dot] com)

]

Sent:     Tuesday, November 30, 1999 11:20 AM

To:

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Subject:  FLASH: Flash and databank




Dear flasher....I need to read a file....( text ) from a

databank.....How do I o

this...what are possibilities?

I know how to make flash read ( .txt ) format..but this is not databank

or

dynamic....


I need to send message from flash to to ODBC....which will get

information from

DB...How do I do this?


thanks....any tips will be helpful....

thanks again anil





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