Flash vb dll / mysql connection

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dominicwells - 15 Sep 2005 00:13 GMT

Hi,

I have written a dll in vb which sits on my webserver. At the moment I use asp
to talk to the dll which in turn collects / sets information in a mysql
database.
I would like to either connect directly to the mysql database from flash or
call functions in the dll (from flash) as I currently can from an asp file.

Any help / advice would be much appretiated.

Thanks,

Dom.

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htmlmaniac - 17 Sep 2005 05:20 GMT

Well I foumd this artical on connecting to mysql in an asp page. What you could
do is create a page thats reads variables from the url and access the database
with it. Then when you have finished the asp page, you would open it in flash
with sertian variables that tell asp to send your data to mysql. So if you
don't already know how to create a connection just using asp here's the artical.

http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/ASP/Using-MyODBC-To-Access-Your-MySQL-Database-Vi
a-ASP/

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dominicwells - 17 Sep 2005 10:15 GMT

Hi,

Cheers for the response.

Are you suggesting using the geturl function? I don't really want to navigate
away from the main window. Do you know of any way of talking to a vb dll
directly from flash possibly using fscommand or something? as this would solve
my problem.

Cheers.

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htmlmaniac - 24 Sep 2005 13:10 GMT

You might create a vb program. Then in flash just run the program and it would
take the out put and use the dll to send it to mysql. You can probly use the
fscommand. You might have to research a little to find what you want. Hope that
answered your question.:)

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dominicwells - 25 Sep 2005 16:23 GMT

Hi,

I don't really get what you mean, you say write a vb program and get flash to
run it. Are you suggesting using an exe rather than a dll? How would you get
flash to run an exe / dll on a webserver?
Also you say use the fscommand but have you any idea what I need to do with
it? I have researched it for a while but got stuck which is why I asked on this
forum hoping that one of the developers may have the answer to my question.

Dom

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