hi! i have a project that will fuse flash/php/mysql…
flash as frontend, php and mysql as my backend…
any suggestions how i can learn these stuffs? (if possible in a short span of time)
any suggestions on books, links, or tutorials?
any help is appreciated…
I wrote out recommendations in this thread. All you really need to learn the basics of PHP/mySQL is the single PHP book I suggest.
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22073&highlight=books+php
I learned the basics in about two days. Then the Flash part is easy once you understand the PHP seciton…
thanks jubba… but is there a book that incorporates those 3? (flash/php/mysql) …im sorry man… i guess im just too lazy… lol =)
THe only think you need to do to send and recieve the variables from FLash to PHP is use “loadVariablesNum()” or loadVars()
you can get help with that on the forum. No I haven’t found a decent book that incorporates all three.
yes i have tried using the loadVars() (which some thoughts and i ideas i found here) …but for now i got a problem… i want to have some kinda “auto save” thing… (the ui is in flash and php will save it on mysql) in which when the user leaves, when he comes back, everything what he’s done is still there… i dont know how to do this…
that (I think) would involve some javascript. When they close the window you would call a function that runs and saves the work. That is a little out of my league (and time constraints) at the moment…
thanks jubba, yes i think javascript could do that… and i think ill to do some snoop since im no good on javascript (poor me… huh huh)
just a question (just pop on my head:)), rumors i heard, php seems to be “this powerful”, so, just a Q, can this be done on php?
www.phpforflash.com a nice site and forum for the book i using at the moment. I would imagine it can be done. What actaully do u want to save? you can use cookies to remember the user and sql to save user details so they can logon. What information r you looking for it to save
Maybe I’m just really stupid, but perhaps what you want could be done with SharedObjects? SharedObjects save data for Flash(like cookies).
You could use a SharedObject to save what the user has done. The only problem is that this could only be used from one PC (as SharedObjects are local, so the user could not login from an internet cafe or anything.)
Theres a tutorial on SharedObjects in the Kirupa.com tutorial section.
Nox: Yes PHP is one of the most powerful Server-Side languages available (with a new version on the way) - but its only Server-Side so you can’t use it to check when the client does something, like closing the window
njs: It depends on how complex the information is that he needs to save, and also if saved to a database, the information is no longer local and accessible from any computer with an internet connection…
weoow! nice insights men!
actually cookies is will do… i mean is one of the option… but i want everything be saved on the server so users can access them anywhere (just what jubba said)…
what i want to do is… i have a flash file(s) with some exercises & quizes on it… and i want to have an “autosave” thing… i mean i want to save everything i want from time to time so when, thus, when something goes wrong, say, the user’s PC crashes, he still have his data… sort of…
I dunno if that is possible, cause i don’t tihkn php can tell if a comp has crashed or not. However, i would imagine u could u use some time functiuon to auto save every so often to a databse so data ain’t lost, but that wouldn’t save it all. If u think about it thats what even programs on your computer do 
How about the theory on a script to calculate the number of people browsing your website at that specific time? I did this using PHP and MySQL. Flash send a new value to a variable for PHP to be store to the database. So when ever a user open your site it counts him. But this is not what I wanted to do, this just functions like an ordinary counter. How can I make the database decrement the count if that user closes or log off from your site?
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