Flash poling tool
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- FUZCO
Hey,
I have no idea how to make a flash poling tool. That would give stats after the user has made their selection. Anyone have any guidance for me, or tutorials?
you people at newstoday are so damn nice (subtle kissing up). LOL
- FUZCO0
amazing flash people...i know you are out there....
- JazX0
Flash Remoting or tying in some back end language such as PHP to MySQL DB and then parsing the into with XML. ;)
- FUZCO0
jazx,
thanks. I understand that much. I am just not sure how to tie it in.
but thanks for the response
- kpl0
xml isn't necessary actually. nice in some situations but for simpler applications flash can parse url encoded data (variable=value&nextvar=nextval) via loadVariables().
soo...
- first set up a form so people can vote.
- pass that vote along to a cgi script using loadVariable(). the cgi will get the vote via the URL ('?vote=1' at the end of the URL) and add it to it's database. It then returns the vote totals in text/plain form, url-encoded.
(ie. vote0=1&vote1=3024)
- flash gets those variables parsed, and renders the total votes frame.simple! i'm sure there are plenty of blanks here you can fill in.
- FUZCO0
Nice! that helps alot ...
thanks