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This tutorial shows you how to make cookies in flash and redirect based upon their value By Abdul Gomaa

This tutorial shows you how to make cookies in flash and redirect based upon their value By Abdul Gomaa

This tutorial will create a dropdown menu of image file names located in a directory on the server using data binding. When the user selects an image from the dropdown menu, the picture will load from the server. We will be using the XMLConnector, label, and loader which are all built-in flash components. By Brady White

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create two kinds of text tweening in flash MX. The first one, being the text size. The second one you will learn, is how to fade text. Both of these can be done with great ease. By Maor Baruch

Use Flash and the www.boomaform.com forms processor to get secure information directly from your sites visitors. By Roderick

Joseph Miller's tutorial on 'How to Make Flash talk to PHP' probably worked flawlessly in PHP 4.0, but I had some trouble with PHP 4.3.0 Here is the updated scriptA.php By Jim Hronchek

Tutorial covers building clients for web services with Flash MX. Also covers using Components to speed up development time, population the components with external data, and using styles and formats to improve the look and feel of the components. By Jeffrey F. Hill

In the past, adding data to a Flash movie was straight-forward, however, with the introduction of the new Flash UI Components, data binding has become significantly more complex. With components ranging from simple list boxes to trees and calendars, it would seem that there must be a hundred different ways to bind data in Flash MX. Fortunately there are several tools to make your life easier and to make Flash MX a true rapid application development environment. Topics Include: - Using the DataProvider class - Using the DataGlue class - Methods for adding non-recordset data to components By Ben Johnson

This article shows you how to setup, configure, install, and use the Apache 2.0 web server, PHP 4.2.0 scripting langauge, PHPMyAdmin, and that latest MYSQL DBMS Database MySQL 3.23 on a Windows machine so you can easily test your dynamic Macromedia Flash content in a server environment. Making it easy to test on your local laptop/desktop. A Flash application using these tools is also detailed. By Jeffrey F. Hill

A basic guide for flash designers who are looking to set up a MySQL database for the first time. By Joseph Miller

A basic guide for passing variables back and forth between a flash movie and PHP scripts. Includes sample files. By Joseph Miller

This tutorial basically shows you how to load variables into a Flash movie (Been there done that - what's new) In the same movie you can also edit those same variables and have them be displayed within the Flash movie immediately. By using a really simple Perl script you can update the variables with one simple button click. In this way you can have information passed to your movie dynamically and update that information at anytime. By Jeffrey F. Hill