Help- made FMX2004 games, have highscore board, need help database

[PmtAce]

I am pretty new to flash and php, but I know the basics of both. I have made plenty of flash games, but I am having trouble making a highscore board in which the scores will save. When I simply save them as a var( var highscore; highscore = 10 (or whatever)) they are lost when I leave and/or refresh the page. I have been told to make a database to store the highscores and then retrieve them. However, I do not know how to do this. I have never set up any databases before, but my server does support them and php. The server I run off of is byethost.
I also have been told to do an Access database. I know that php uses mysql databases, but I have no idea what to do.
What I need to know is how to set up a database, how to send variable in flash to it, and how to retrieve them in flash. Thanks in advance.

 

[billwatson]

lots of examples at

http://www.flash-db.com

 

[PmtAce]

thx

 

[PmtAce]

On the site I found something that explains how to send variables from flash to php. It is much simpler than I thought it would be. However I cant find something that explains how to connect/ make a database. Thanks for the other reply, it has solved half of my problems.
The place that showed me how to send the variables:

http://www.flash-db.com/Board/index.php?PHPSESSID=96509f0ef12cec36c286261cd1222caa&topic=15179.0