Webmaster Forum / Flash / Data Integration / March 2008

1. I must completely thank all of you on this forum, especially The
FeldKirscher, (and David Powers' book - PHP5 for Flash) for helping getting
this project to work!
2.After a long and hard road, I finally completed a flash 8 (AS 2.0) that uses

I am desperate to find an answer to a request from a client who wants to build
a "design your own uniform" application. He wants it built so that the
manufacturer can update the styles themselves(non-programmers) for example the
styles are in vector or bitmap file (which ever ...

I have a dynamic text instance in Flash named dynamic_txt and I want it to
display information from a php file.  What command allows me to do this?  Here
is the code:
PHP

Why won't this work?  I just want to create one Node for each <placemark> tag
in the xml.
the xmlData trace gets:
<kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.2">

I'm working on a mapping application that imports latitude and longitude data
and plots it onto a 3D globe.  Does anyone have experience with this?  I'm not
sure what the best solution to my problem is.
You can see and download the code base from the open-source project here:

I have a problem that for some will be trivial, but for me it is getting on my
nervs.
All the tutorials and tips I have seen around about AS2 and XML are based on
very simple XML sintax done in purpose for flash, but when the XMl is a little

I'm curious as to why one would use a database like mysql (or any other DB) over flash extracting information from a text file. (exceptions: password protection and search fields)
Thank you.

Does anyone here use this hosting service?
Toad78

I am very new to using databases and Flash.  I have Flash CS3 so I can use any
version of AS.  Below are my goals for the project.
-Front end that will allow me to enter in a Name and Kind.
-Submit the information to a database.