Server-Side Flash: Scripts, Databases, and Dynamic Development ebook

by William B. Sanders,Mark Winstanley

William B. Sanders Mark Winstanley Networking and Cloud Computing English

Server-Side Flash gives developers the tools to fully utilize Flash's capacity to communicate with the server side of the We. William B. Sanders is a Web development expert who has written more than 35 computer books, including Flash ActionScript f/x and Design

William B. Sanders is a Web development expert who has written more than 35 computer books, including Flash ActionScript f/x and Design. A former developer for Apple Computer, he teaches in the Interactive Information Technology program at the University of Hartford where he works with students in developing concepts and applications for the World Wide Web.

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Server-Side Flash™S cripts, Databases, and Dynamic Development If you're a Flash developer, how do you learn to work with ASP, PHP, SQL, XML, and the rest of the server-side alphabet soup? This unique, results-oriented book provides the answers, delivering crystal-clear tutorials on today's most popular technologies for dynamic Web pages. Sanders and Mark Winstanley show you step by step how to construct real-world interactive Flash applications to make your movies and animations truly dynamic.

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Server-Side Flash – Scripts, Databases, and Dynamic. The book finishes up with Flash 5 movies and server-side scripts that are involved in the process of setting up and administering an eBusiness site on the Web. Development William B. Sanders and Mark Winstanley Published by Hungry Minds, Inc. 909 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 ww. ungryminds. Chapter 10 shows you all the steps needed in Flash 5 to create the client side of the eBusiness. The business has bouncing drop-down menus from which the customer can select products or services in an online Web design shop.

Server-Side Flash: Scripts, Databases, and Dynamic Development fills an important gap in the Flash book market. With the emergence of e-commerce, no Web site is complete without a back end because the back end is the virtual sales connection

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PHP can launch server-side script using Flash as a front-end to pass data and variables between the MySQL database, PHP, and Flash to manage databases.

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B. Sanders and M. Winstanley, Server-side Flash: Script, Databases, and Dynamic Development, New York: Hungry Minds,2001. Introduction to Multimedia Systems. Since relational databases such as Oracle, DB2 and MS SQL Server are still the mainstream database products in practice to store multimedia data. In this paper we propose a method to translate an MPQF query to SQL that relational based. multimedia database can evaluate and execute.

Server-Side Flash: Scripts, Databases, and Dynamic Development fills an important gap in the Flash book market. With the emergence of e-commerce, no Web site is complete without a back end because the back end is the virtual sales connection. Likewise, complex games are dependent on access to huge sets of data that can be sent in small packages, but getting them in and out of Flash requires knowing how the data can be generated in Flash, how it can be sent out to the servers and how it gets information back from the servers and integrates it into the ongoing game.

While every book on Flash recognizes this new capacity to some extent, none of them have really showed developers how to get the data into and out of Flash and use it effectively. Server-Side Flash gives developers the tools to fully utilize Flash's capacity to communicate with the server side of the Web. PHP/MySQL have over half a million users, ASP has at least as many, and just about every professional Web page now contains at least some jаvascript. Find out how Flash communicates with these other languages and servers with coverage of the use of Macromedia's powerful database Flash product, Generator, and put its use in context with other Flash database techniques and applications.

Mezilabar

After receiving this fantastic book I was in 7th heaven. I'm a web developer. I use everything from simple HTML to FLASH to create web sites. Many times you have to use online tutorials written by others who found a way to combine different applications. I use CGI, PERL, MySQL,PHP and FLASH to make sites more interactive. This book allows shows you how to intergrate FLASH with CGI, MySQL (database), PERL,and PHP. Usually you would need a half dozen books open and countless online references to accomplish what this single book offers you.

Ndav

This book makes me sorry I ever learned how to read.
Besides the poor copy editing done by the editors to catch obvious mistakes like missellping 'default' or using the wrong 'your', this book takes inane examples and presents them in the worst possible way.
This book is 458 pages of advertisement to buy other IDG Worldwide books and use JTLNet or HosTek hosting serices. Oh, and it has 4 lines of Flash instruction that you might need if you want to start learning server-side flash.
Save yourself the money: Skim this book in the bookstore and you'll get all you need to know out of it.

Malhala

Ok, "server-side Flash" is sort of misleading: Flash doesn't actually run on the server in the way that "server-side Java" does, for example.
This is basically the same idea as "Flash 5 Dynamic Content Studio" by Friends of Ed. This book is a bit drier and emphasizes code over everything else, which is as it should be. You won't find the pointless filler that pumps "Dynamic Content Studio" to 1000+ pages, but you won't be paying for it in money or weight, either. Of the two, this should be your choice if only because it doesn't suffer from the "too many cooks" syndrome of the Friends of Ed series. You don't need to figure out 8 peoples' coding style here like you do in "Dynamic Content Studio."
True, this is not a complete book about middleware technologies, and I wouldn't want to dive into a serious ecommerce project with nothing more than this book, but it's a solid introduction to a wide range of technologies.

Eng.Men

This isn't a criticism of the book, but pay attention that it's from 2001 and covers Flash 5, NOT the latest Flash MX and its available Flash Remoting technology which offers far easier server-side integration.
Still, the info in the book still has value today to those who have not yet bought Flash MX. Indeed, even if you have Flash Mx, if your server is Perl, PHP, CF5, etc, then the approaches here will work since the new Flash Remoting only works on CFMX, ASP.NET, and select J2EE platforms.
Then again, MX users who do get the book should check out the newer LoadVars object as an alternative to the older but still supported LoadVariables. The approach to processing XML is also vastly improved in MX.
Of course, the book can't be faulted for having come out prior to MX. It's just that since the title doesn't say Flash 5, if you buy the book thinking it's about the latest and greatest ways of doing Flash/server integration, you'd likely be disappointed. Just offering this as a caution.

Bort

William B. Sanders and Mark Winstanlet have put together a remarkable little book that serves as a terrific intro on connecting Flash to a database. Clear but dense, this is no
"quick read" - however, you will walk away marveling at how easily Flash can connect to a database, and wondering why it is not used more often as an application development (as opposed to graphics/animation) tool on the web. In particular, the Flash, PHP, MySQL combo is simply awesome.

Bill Saunders, got back w/in an hour regarding a question on one of the examples. He is my favorite "Flash" author. Check out Flash FX and Design by Saunders as well. Best book on ActionScript for the money.

Zeli

When I found this book, it was like discovering the missing link for my programming library. Thie book is not for web-design beginners, Flash newbies, or non-scripters. It has some paint-by-the numbers introductions to each technology, but the book's true value is the clear explanations of how to pass information from Flash to middleware and back. If you already know ActionScript ans some ASP/PHP, then grab this book and you can say goodbye to hours annoying guesswork in your coding.
It blows away the Freinds of Ed books in it's precision. You just get info, not some designer's cutesy stab at technical writing.
Top notch.

Yla

I don't think there's anyone out there who will read this book and not come away having learned SOMETHING they didn't know about integrating Flash with the server scripting languages, and doing all the things you hear that you can do with Flash but no one ever tells you specifically how. There's plenty of reusable code for setting cookies and sending emails and storing Flash data in a database for creating dynamic Flash movies. This book definitely isn't meant to teach Actionscript or Flash basics, which is good since it seems there's about 1,000 of those books that came out this year. At least here there's an opportunity here to learn something NEW and unique about pushing the limits of what is possible with Flash, with serious working examples.
Since the book does a good job of replacing about 5 other books you might need to buy, it's not a 'page-turner' where you can jump right in at any point. The information is dense but clearly presented so I had to make an effort to read and try all the examples and not just skim pages like in other books where there's way too many pictures and not enough solid information. Definitely not the case here. I found a lot of tips and tricks throughout as well about Flash and troubleshooting issues that are clearly the product of real world experience on the part of the authors.
I'd rate it a "must-have" for any serious Flash developer's library, especially if you do work for a variety of clients that seem to all be running different hosting setups or have a preference for different languages ala PHP/ASP/Perl, and need to use Flash for more than just animation.