[flexcoders] Re: User loads CSV file

2008-06-25 Thread valdhor
I would probably set up two (or three) states in your Flex application - one to upload files to the server (See http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=17_Networking_and_communications_9.html), one to manually enter data and one to display the data in a meaningful fashion. I would

[flexcoders] Re: User loads CSV file

2008-06-25 Thread cox.blair
Okay, the back story is we are creating a completely new application based on a very complicated Excel based spreadsheet an engineer designed to record the data collected from users. The program essentially trends this data. It will be entered manually as well as collected from the device as I men

[flexcoders] Re: User loads CSV file

2008-06-25 Thread valdhor
So, let me get this straight You have a bunch of users out in the field collecting data with some kind of datalogger. This datalogger exports its data as CSV. You want to get this data into a MySQL database using Flex? You already have a way of getting the data into MySQL and you want to use

[flexcoders] Re: User loads CSV file

2008-06-25 Thread cox.blair
Sorry, It would initially be for a web page. Later the application will be migrated to AIR. We are using PHP and MySQL for the database, if that helps as well. Thanks, Blair --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "valdhor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Would this be for an AIR app or a web page? >

[flexcoders] Re: User loads CSV file

2008-06-25 Thread cox.blair
So if I had the user upload the file to the server and specified what the file should be named as, could I then load the contents of the file and store it in the MySQL database? I see all kinds of information about XML files, however I would need to write an app to convert a CSV to XML to load... D

[flexcoders] Re: User loads CSV file

2008-06-24 Thread valdhor
Would this be for an AIR app or a web page? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "cox.blair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm new here, so go easy on me. I'm essentially just beginning with > Flex, needless to say, I'm ready to learn. Using Flex Builder 3. > > I've spent a f