including a message board in Flash

[lelales]

I'm sure this can be done with a component but I'm unfamiliar with components.

How can I include this message board in my Flash doc?
http://www.caillouette.com/dead6site/messageboard/msgboard.php

They currently have this functionality on their web site.
It can be seen at:http://www.deadletterdiaries.com/index2.html
click enter, then click media, then click message board.

I guess I could do it with abosulute position using the <div> tag but I was wondering if a scroll box, or combo box, or whatever could show a php doc?

thanks

[deadbeat]

That message board is not part of the Flash, it is HTML in an iFrame...

K.

[lelales]

My question was, how do I make it a part of Flash.

thanks

[deadbeat]

Well, Flash only supports a small subset of HTML tags, so it's doubtful that you'll be able to just load the whole message board directly into Flash

You might check out the XHTML Renderer component from flashpushers, see if it helps...

http://www.flashpushers.net/indexflash.html

K.

[johnnystorm]

if you know a scripting language like php or asp you could write a custom script that would allow you to import the data into Flash, then you'd have to write an AS script to handle the input.

On my site johnnystorm.com (http://www.johnnystorm.com) I use mysql and php to generate a browsable portfolio. The same method could be applied to your message board.

Here are 2 examples of code you can check out that might help you:

Example 1 (http://www.johnnystorm.com/flash/?blog=/flash/archive/2004_08_16_flash.php)
Example 2 ( http://www.johnnystorm.com/flash/?blog=/flash/archive/2004_10_12_flash.php)

[lelales]

I think I'm going to use a pop up php window.

thanks again