Flash

Posted under » Web Scripting on 13 March 2009

Flash is not just for fancy effects. Flash with actionscript can do almost everything you need in a website. It is versatile because it can do what PHP and Javascript can do and in most cases look much slicker.

What I like about Flash is that you cannot peek at the code easily like other client side technologies like Javascript.

Flash has changed throughout the years. It was started by Macromedia and was later sold to Adobe. Flash has become an Object-oriented programming (OOP) language because Adobe wanted Flash to work with databases and such.

For those who hated the pain of OOP (Action Script 3), fortunately, Flash CS3 and CS4 still supports the old format (Action Script 2). There are other things I don't like about Flash.

Let's get started with some Flash exercise.

lesson #4 : LoadVars Send, sendAndLoad, Load in AS2.

lesson #3 : Trigger javascript functions from Flash.

lesson #2 : Sending Variables from AS3 to PHP.

lesson #1 : Difference between AS2 and AS3.