--- In [email protected], "Alan Sawyer" <asaw...@...> wrote: > > I am brand new to Flex so please excuse me if this is a dumb question, > but I looked thru 2-3 books and quite a few web articles, etc, and I'm > missing something. > > What I want to do is create a website that has secure pages, so some > of them will require the user to logon to be able to set them. The > user will then go to a search page, do a search, and then see the list > (record) of names, addresses that the search retrieved and be able to > navigate First, Last, Previous, Next, etc. In this case, I really > would like to show one record at a time and move to the next/previous > record. > > It would be nice to create a registration page, forgot password, > remember me, forget me, and it would really be nice to have a dynamic > horizontal menu driven by data in the database, along with the > permissions level that the user has once they've logged in. > > This is relatively basic website stuff, and I've found a few Flex > things that demonstrated a login page, but that's about it. > > I use Linux and Mysql on the server, and xampp on my local dev machine > that has Apache, and Mysql. > > I would be using Flex Builder 3.
Have you ever built such a site without using Flex (i.e. using ASP, PHP, or similar)? If not, you're going to have a steep learning curve, because you're going to have to learn both the server side and the Flex side--Flex does not eliminate the need for the back end technology, it just gives you a prettier/more responsive interface. I'd suggest you find some tutorials that teach you to build such a site in your chosen back-end language, probably PHP, then once you have that built replace the interface with Flex. There are some small details that will be different on the server side, such as returning typed objects or XML rather than HTML, but by and large most of the tasks will be the same. HTH; Amy
