Hey, all,
I’m currently in the midst of planning some fairly major projects, and have come up against 2 pretty major problems. Can anyone give me any idea of how to over-come them?
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Saving XML files to the host server:
I want to create a “membership file” which is XML and carries all of the personal data of the member in question. This will then be referenced from a Membership database which I can update when a new member joins. I’ve read about XML objects in flash, but it seems that you can’t actually save out an XML file (!?), and if you do manage to do it, it’s only ever going to be to the client machine. Is there anyway, in actionscript, to get around this? I’m reasonably good at AS3.0, but I don’t know any other web-programming language (like PHP, for example). -
Emailing from a Flash movie:
To verify membership, I want to generate an e-mail to the person in question, giving them an authorisation password (in much the same way as most web-forums do it). I’ve found loads of examples of this all over the net, with very small amounts of PHP which is supposed to do the trick. I even found a very promising looking version on this site. Problem is that none of them seem to work (even the one on this site!). If you look for it, you can enter your e-mail address (which I did), then a subject and message body. Pressing send tells me that the e-mail has been sent, but it never shows up at the address I specified. I’ve tried 4 different addresses too, in case it was being caught by a spam filter. Why doesn’t it work? Am I missing something?
Sincerely hope you guys can help me - I’m really keen to get my project off the ground, but without either of these elements, I may just have to kiss it goodbye! 
Cheers,
SB
