e-commerce engine w/ Flash

[Bryan-shu]

I am working on the design of a site which happens to be e-commerce. My boss has recommended the monstercommerce engine. The deal is that I want to reformat all of the data that is outed from this engine and display it in a controled interface which I have designed in Flash. I also need to be able to output data to the engine from Flash.

First of all is this possible? Secondly, is there an alternative like creating a secure database and accessing that directly from Flash?

Thanks to all who respond to my inquiry.

[xxlm]

there is some e-commerce tuts on flash-db: http://www.flash-db.com/Tutorials/store/
Perhaps it could help more...
I dunno...
C you

[Abelius]

First of all, Flash ALONE can NOT talk to databases. it needs to talk to them through either ASP pages, PHP pages or Coldfusion pages, and I might be forgetting some other technologies out there...

About e-commerce, I would also suggest to your boss to NOT to rely too much on Flash as potential buyers dont appreciate the advantages of Flash towards HTML, not yet at least...
If your boss thinks Flash is cool just because you can't "View-source" it, then you might tell him the pain of the secure server protocols when translating from ASP or PHP back into Flash... :)