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a94060
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Flash and PHP

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Hi,


i was wondering if it was possible to use PHP inside of a flash movie
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not directly unless you created a php parser port in Flash, which is silly I'd say.
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so it would be kind of point less to make a site of mainly flashh if you want to have a registration and other member features and you only know php very well?
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you can reference php pages and pull (and push) data from (to) php via page calls.
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Take a look at the action script method sendAndLoad(); You can use PHP to create dynamic flash movies. In fact there is (or at least there used to be) a project for a Flash phpMyAdmin.
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o ok,i was just asking like that. does flash allow interaction witha mysql database?
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