RE: FLASH: Message Board (Bored?)

[Branden Hall]

Recipe for a message board with Flash 4:


Ingrediants:

-Flash 4 (duh!)

-A server that has both a database server and either PHP/ASP/CGI/Cold Fusion

or some other server side scripting language

-Lots of knowledge about that database server and server side scripting

language


Instructions:

-Build a few template FLA files that can load into it data from a remote

file (which will be the server side lanugage)You will need 3 of these, one

for the the main screen (since you might want to add areas), one for the

list of the threads, and one for the actual threads.

-Create a relational database that will store all of the information in the

message board in various tables.

-Write the scripting language so that it takes info from the FLA files (ie

what thread/group they want to look at) and then sends back the appropriate

information from the database.


In the case of Shockfusion, they use PHP as the language and MySQL as the

database.  www.php.net for more info on PHP, and www.mysql.com for more info

on MySQL. Note: They are both licensed under the GNU license, and are thus

free for most uses.


-= Branden J. Hall

-= Web Developer / Instructor

-= Fig Leaf Software





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