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Jeremy Green

I am a graphic designer that dabbles in Flash and web design. I especially love creating new apps with Adobe AIR.

Quick Tip: Create a Contact Form with SMS and Email Alerts

Quick Tip: Create a Contact Form with SMS and Email Alerts

In this Quick Tip, I will show you how to build a contact form using PHP and ActionScript 3. We’ll learn how to pass variables from Flash to PHP and alert the owner by sending either an email or an SMS text message.

Build a Chatroom with Flash, Adobe AIR and PHP – Active Premium
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Build a Chatroom with Flash, Adobe AIR and PHP – Active Premium

It’s that time again; we have another Active Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to take your ActionScript (and PHP, MySQL and XML) skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you, courtesy of Jeremy Green.

Quick Tip: Working with SharedObjects

Quick Tip: Working with SharedObjects

In this Quick Tip, I’ll show you how to store and access SharedObjects (the Flash equivalent of cookies) so that you can save and load user data between sessions.

Quick Tip: How to Communicate Between Flash and JavaScript

Quick Tip: How to Communicate Between Flash and JavaScript

In this Quick Tip, we’ll look at how to use the ExternalInterface class. This allows us to write AS3 which can run JavaScript code, and vice-versa. That means you can use Flash to alter parts of the webpage in which it’s running!

Create a Comment Form with Flash, PHP, XML and MySQL

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Flash, PHP and MySQL together. We’ll build a simple comment form that takes entries and stores them in a database. We’ll use PHP to retrieve the entries and format the comments into XML form. Let’s get going!

Create a Drag and Drop MP3 Player with Adobe AIR

In this tutorial, we’ll create an AIR drag and drop mp3 player. We’ll work with the NativeDragManager class to handle the drag and drop, the NativeWindow class for the playlist, and some SQLLite to store information about our mp3 files to build a playlist.

Build a Custom File Extension AIR App

This tutorial will explain how to make your own file extensions in Adobe AIR. I’ll show you how to build a small application, save the positions of a couple movieclips within it, and reload them when the application is launched.

Follow along and see if you can come up with your own uses for Custom File Extensions..

Plotting Points Using Yahoo! Maps and RSS

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to get started with the Yahoo! Maps API in Flash. We’ll load a couple of RSS feeds and plot some natural disaster warnings using their longitudes and latitudes.