My apologies Muzak, I think I sent my previous answer to your private email;
If i forget to change the address, when i click 'replay' to an email,
for some strange reasons, this lists uses the originator's address and
not the lists', sheesh!
any how Thank you for the info. i have tried to access the page but the
server must be down at the moment, i will follow up later.
In any case, t he reason I want all the info in a database is so that
the client can manage/amend/update the content via a dedicated CMS and
be totally independent of the developers (me).
Meis a ctually a team of three doing a group project (uni project) for
a real client who needs total independence at the end. The client and
his staff are not programmers at all so I thought, if I use the databse
approach I can use the table names to populate my menues and the content
of the tables to drive the content of the site as required.
Am I on the wrong track completely?
As you can see I am not at a level that will afford me any ease during
production so any tips are much appreciated.
Thanks
JohnT
Muzak wrote:
Heya John,
If the data will eventually be coming from a database, don't use XML.
See my previous reply on why not to use JSON with a text file ;-)
When communicating with a database I'd avoid using XML (and even JSON for that
matter).
Have a look at Flash Remoting instead which allows you to receive data in a
format that Flash understands.
For PHP, there's AMFPHP:
http://www.amfphp.org
Now with all that said, I'm wondering why you'd want to store menu information
in a database at all.
Storing this in a database doesn't really make sense to me:
about us
news
portfolio
regards,
Muzak
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Trentini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] LoadVars array.length problem
That sounds right, even to me, eheheh!
I was trying to test my skills with AS.
I eventually need to get the data, via PHP, from a database.
I suppose I will need to format my php response to produce an xml file but I am
quuuuuuite new to this and am tentative..
Thanks MuzaK ^_^
JohnT
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