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!

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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!

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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.

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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..

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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.

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