barrelfish
08-06-2004, 10:47 PM
I'm fairly new to flash and want to start building my first web app but need some guidance. Sorry for the long post.
What I want to do is have a flash client (obviously) that users could log into so they could see/update their data as well as have read access to other people's data. The webspace I have includes a MySql DB and I believe ASP is setup as well. (I don't know ASP so I may be interpreting this wrong.)
I've read numerous articles/posts about similar items but I want to be clear in my own head. Therefore any input is greatly appreciated.
1) I believe there is no way for me to directly access the db, at least without installing some software on the server side, correct?
2) I don't want to pay for any such software to install server side and furthermore, I don't know if I would even be allowed to install such thing.
2) With that in mind, I'm guessing I need to do something along the lines of creating an XML file in flash, sending that to the server, having something read it and create sql statements (asp maybe?), pull data from db, have something create an xml file to return to flash and finally have flash read that info and display results. Am I going down the right path?
3) If I am on the right path, what do I need to do on the server side to make this happen? Code some web service in C# or something?
3) For info, my programming background is cobol/db2 and I haven't done that stuff for a few years. I'm trying to learn Actionscript 2.0 as well as C# and XML and thought building some simple app like this would be a good way to learn.
I hope I am being clear in what I want to do and my questions make sense. I greatly appreciate any nudge in the right direction. I don't want to waste a lot of time going down the wrong road as it seems most things I read talk about needing CF or some Flash Remoting application.
Thanks!
What I want to do is have a flash client (obviously) that users could log into so they could see/update their data as well as have read access to other people's data. The webspace I have includes a MySql DB and I believe ASP is setup as well. (I don't know ASP so I may be interpreting this wrong.)
I've read numerous articles/posts about similar items but I want to be clear in my own head. Therefore any input is greatly appreciated.
1) I believe there is no way for me to directly access the db, at least without installing some software on the server side, correct?
2) I don't want to pay for any such software to install server side and furthermore, I don't know if I would even be allowed to install such thing.
2) With that in mind, I'm guessing I need to do something along the lines of creating an XML file in flash, sending that to the server, having something read it and create sql statements (asp maybe?), pull data from db, have something create an xml file to return to flash and finally have flash read that info and display results. Am I going down the right path?
3) If I am on the right path, what do I need to do on the server side to make this happen? Code some web service in C# or something?
3) For info, my programming background is cobol/db2 and I haven't done that stuff for a few years. I'm trying to learn Actionscript 2.0 as well as C# and XML and thought building some simple app like this would be a good way to learn.
I hope I am being clear in what I want to do and my questions make sense. I greatly appreciate any nudge in the right direction. I don't want to waste a lot of time going down the wrong road as it seems most things I read talk about needing CF or some Flash Remoting application.
Thanks!