# Making a guestbook with Flash

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-a-guestbook-with-flash/173377>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 24, 2005, 5:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-a-guestbook-with-flash/173377 "2005-12-24T05:04:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![kko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@kko](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kko)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 5:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-a-guestbook-with-flash/173377/1 "2005-12-24T05:04:58Z")

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Hey all!

I am making a guestbook with flash. So integration of Flash with ASP, access database, XML…

I don’t know if this is a good idea, but this is what i’m doing:

[LIST=1]  
[_] User uses flash interface to enter fields such as name and comments.  
[_] The flash then does loadvars.send() to an ASP page.  
[_] The ASP page adds the name and comments to an Access Database.  
[_]The ASP page then queries with SQL all the entries in the database, and responds by writing on the screen the entries in XML format.  
[\*] Flash then uses xml load() to format how the entries are shown in flash. [/LIST]

Now, most of it works fine with my newbie actionscripting =)  
Just one problem though…

[INDENT]If the ASP prints onto the browser screen something like \<gb\>…\<entry\>\<name\>somename\</name\>\<body\>somecomment\</body\>\</entry\>…[repeat]…\</gb\>  
(so via using “\>” and “\<” when using Response.Write), the Flash doesn’t recognise the “\<” and “\>” so it doesn’t work.  
[/INDENT] [INDENT]If the ASP Response.Write doesn’t use the “\>” but uses “\>” instead, then those \< and \> signs don’t pring onto the browser, but it’s present if you do View Source. In this case, the Flash seems to recognise the “\<” and “\>” but only ONE ‘entry’ is fed into the swf…  
so even tho there are many \<entry\>…\</entry\>, it only sees one of them, then the \</gb\> tag…  
[/INDENT]  
Am I meant to use “\>” of “\>”?How do i make it see all of them? ??

(Please tell me if I haven’t explained this problem well enuff…)