flashtool development

[Arjan]

I am also building a flash application (for me it is the easiest way) but the build has to be made by php first (all the actions are call via URLRequest statment)

are you using flash, or flash builder 4?

i am actually using flash builder 4 (Flex) to build the game/tool.
flashbuilder can make use of Datasources (to connect to mysql through php)

but the good thing about it, it GENERATES all the PHP code for you (all the mysql statements)

it also makes use of Zend AMF, that means that the results of the queries are send back in AMF format (kind of XML) which flash builder can handle... and is very small in bytes (its passed in binary)

Adobe Systems has contributed support for their open, binary Action Message Format (AMF) protocol to Zend Framework. Using Zend_Amf, you can build Flex and AIR applications that are performant and use minimal bandwidth.

this is the reason i need to have a perfect database... it generates the PHP code based on the table and columnnames... so i dont want to have to change all references in flash if some tables change again..

i had never used flash builder before one week ago, but i did the video training in 1 week.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/

really amazing what that can do, very easy and a lot can be done by drag and drop.
worth looking into

in flash builder i make object arrays based on those