A couple of questions

programming flash
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Hi… I’m just getting started with Flash design… I wanted to know if I need ASP or PHP to do some of this stuff, or if I can do it in flash or javascript…

  1. write to a text file (to get a bulletin board going…)
  2. count hits… (maybe have a script that writes to a file each time the page is loaded?)
  3. track IP addresses that visit the page…

thanks
Raf

2

Howdy…

  1. PHP should do the job… Flash can write a cookie like file though…
  2. Flash can count the number that’s been brought from the external source such as text file… and if you do need to add one more and return the value back so that the text file needs to be updated, you will need PHP to do that…
  3. PHP can write a log with that information…

I don’t know ASP, but I believe ASP can do the very same thing… =)

3

PHP all the way… Here is a BBoard type thing that I made:

http://www.kirupaforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12463&highlight=php+guestbook

Here are links to your other two questions:

Counter: http://www.daydreamgraphics.com/tutorials/list/details/2/102

Track IP: http://www.daydreamgraphics.com/tutorials/list/details/2/94

that last one is similar but not exactly what you want… check out www.php.net for more information…