Using dynamic text in C.D. ROM applications

[AudreyLucy]

salutations,

I'm creating a sales C.D., in Flash MX, for our design firm. Obviously the information in the C.D. will be everchanging, especialy in the portfolio/client sections.

I would like to know if it is possible to use Actionscript, within the Flash Movie, to connect to a Database when both the Flash Movie and the Database do not exist on the web.

Our Database programer uses PHP. Will she need to learn XML or another scripting language? Or will PHP work?

thanks

 

[rgstewart]

I would have thought that you could still use a browser to run the CD content - the PHP source should just be shifted from a remote URL to the CD ROM. If the database is constantly changing, though, how are you going to update it if it is burned on to a CD ROM?

 

[AudreyLucy]

Sorry, my original post may have been somewhat confusing.

I won't be updating the actual C.D. ROM via the data base. I will be updating the original Flash File that exists on our file server, and burning new C.D's after changes have been made to that file.

FYI. The C.D. will be self running and will not open the browser. It will run in the Flash Player.

I am looking for an easy way to update that information, without having to open the Flash File...search for each individual movie clip that contains text, and update everything manually.

There has to be a way to dynamically update the text, in the original Flash File, even though it is not on the web.

 

[wangbar]

How about taking all the data in from an external text file via loadVariables()? Every time you update the CD all you'd have to do is rewrite the text file, you could leave the Flash alone. In effect it's a flatfile database. Slainte

http://www.wangbar.co.uk

 

[AudreyLucy]

Thanks wangbar,

We'll give that a try.