Flash and Database content...

[banjoboy]

Hi all! Brand spankin' new here and basically new to ColdFusion and Database dealings.

I am currently working on a Flash based news displayer. There are three news items however only one story is shown at a time. My main problem is trying to make Flash display content we have on the database i.e. the flash piece is only a content displayer. How can I make a story on the database show up in flash? I know, dumb newbie question but I have to start somewhere. :)

[Paerez]

Well you have to get Flash to talk to coldfusion (I don't know how to do this, but I can do it in PHP). Then, in coldfusion you write functions that query the database. You have coldfusion run a query like SELECT * FROM NewsStories; Then you have to use coldfusion to return the result from flash.

The name for this topic is: Flash Remoting with ColdFusion, that may help you search better for answers.

[banjoboy]

Thank you! I was looking for advice like that. I will take whatever other advice is out there, but this was a great help.