Web Animation: Tutorial using Macromedia Flash
This tutorial went a little outside of the scope of the class because it involved ActionScript, PHP, and MySQL. What I wanted to do (and have for some time) is be able to query a database and display that information inside a Flash movie (since many of my previous projects were entirely Flash based). I followed one tutorial, but had to seek help from a few other sources to get it all flowing together.
Since Steel accounts do not support PHP or MySQL, I had to use some personal hosting space to run the queries and scripts. That being said, I can't promise these links stay in tact forever. Here is a simplified version of what is going on:
- The MySQL query looks something like this in raw form: SQL
- Ugly, huh? So you can use PHP to format it: PHP
- Better, but it's still not in Flash... until: Tada!
- There are still a few bugs, but the foundation is laid to browse database entries with Flash
Here are the links to the sites that helped me complete this: Kirupa - Kirupa 2 - Forum
