# In desperate need of help

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/in-desperate-need-of-help/266734
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 23, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/in-desperate-need-of-help/266734 "2008-07-23T21:56:43Z")
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### Author: ![Kenwio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kenwio](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Kenwio)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/in-desperate-need-of-help/266734/1 "2008-07-23T21:56:43Z")

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Hi! :hair:

First off, I’m a newbie to Flash/Flex/ActionScript/PHP/MySQL and programming in general.  
Secondly, I’ve been trying to get the following thing to work for a loong time now…

1. You have a PHP script that looks like this:

```php
<?php
    require_once("connection.php");
    require_once("validation.php");
   
    ###READ AND OUTPUT FIELDNAMES OF TABLE STATIONS###
    $query = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM stations');
    $return = "<fields>";
    $numberfields = mysql_num_fields($query);

    for ($i=0; $i<$numberfields ; $i++ ) {
       $var = mysql_field_name($query, $i);
       $return .= "<field><fieldname>".$var."</fieldname></field>";
    }
    $return .= "</fields>";
    echo $return;
?>

```

This basically gets the fieldnames from a table named stations, and generates an XML-response.

1. You then wan’t to catch this XML-generated output from PHP to a “container” of some sort in AS3.

HOW WOULD YOU DO IT??? Can you please describe a short example of how YOU would achieve this.

Please, I’m in desperate need of guidelines here…I’ve been posting threads related to this problem on several forums for a while now but noone seems to help out…

Please!  
Kenw