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

Nov 13th in ActionScript, Intermediate by Jeremy Green
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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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Using the YouTube Player API with ActionScript 3.0

Jun 12th in Intermediate, Video by Ahmed Nuaman
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Though more and more of us are developing with AS3, certain technologies remain in AS2. This forces us to find fast, simple ways to use these technologies within our projects. One such technology is YouTube.

The current YouTube player is still in AS2 and until it’s updated to AS3, we have to create a wrapper to allow us to load videos into our projects. Remember, stealing the FLV feed is against YouTube’s terms and conditions, so let’s do it the right way using the chromed or chromeless player.

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