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For the last 5 years I have been writing web applications using PHP, MySQL and FLash. I use PHP to interact with the MySQL database reading and writing the data. The Flash is used as the front end forms. The forms are made to look like what you would expect to see in any computer application.
The problem I found was, there wasn't a lot of easy to understand documentation for Flash components like the datagrid. I can remember spending hours trying to figure out how to get data in and out of this thing. I eventually got it all figured out. One big problem I had was when I needed to embed two check box's, five combo box's and have one editable text field.
Each of the combo box's needed separate data feeds and the data had to be loaded into the datagrid and then saved back out. It turned out to be quite a task. I will put that up here in the site soon as a tutorial as i'm sure there's someone trying to work out how to do it. |
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There are some essential actionscript 2.0, Flash 8 actionscript tutorials. We also take a look at some serious Flash programming with the datagrid.
One of the hardest things I found to do with the datagrid was to embed multiple components especially the combo box with it's own dataset separate from the datagrid dataset. So we take a look at that to.
Just click on the Flash menu at the top of the page and choose Actionscript from the drop down tabs. |
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Also of interest of late is SEO or Search Engine Optimization, I will discuss this in the blog and will open a forum topic on it.
There are some really great tools becoming available now, many of them free and some not so free. It is important to understand how to optimize your website to give it be best visibility to the searching public from finding the best keyword strings with the least competition to help you get the best rating in the search engines.
When I started looking in to SEO it on the surface looked complex but once again I proved that using a simple set of instructions you can get your site optimized yourself. Check out the blog's for further information on SEO. |
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The Free tutorials offered on this site are just that free tutorials and do not come with any warranty or support. They start with the basic steps first and then progress through to the more complex. The first tutorial takes you through from setting up a database with phpMyAdmin making a table in the mysql database, (it assumes you have access to a mysql database) it then proceeds to show you how to read data from a mysql database using a PHP script and populating the results in a Flash form. The Flash form has a datagrid, combo box and text fields on it and the data is searchable on the form.
The second tutorial goes a step further, it shows you how using a PHP script you can insert and edit data from the flash form to the MySQL database and update the datagrid.
NOTE: If you do want to download the tutorials from this site you will be asked to give your email address, make sure it is a real email address as the download link is emailed out to you at the email address you supply. We do this to keep an eye on how popular the tutorials are and how many people are downloading them. Also we may in future email you updated announcements of new tutorials as we add them to the website. We do not sell or pass on any email addresses submitted through the tutorial section of this site. |
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