Accessing third party tools

[Alex]

Hi everybody!

Is there a way to access a third party tool every time my movie is loaded through a web page?

What I am trying to do is whenever someone accesses my web page (which will be a Flash MX movie), I want to be able to access the third party tool to retrieve the latest information and display it on my page. Something like a real-time stats info. page.

Can this be done through Flash or would it be easier to do through html/javascript?

Any help/advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

- Alex

[pellepiano]

Sounds like you mean a serverside script that will collect data from a database ( a third party tool usually refers to a program from a company outside Macromedia that makes tools from use with Flash ).

Almost anything is doable with Flash so to connecting it to a database is no problem, but you got to figure out what and how to save relevant data to the database first.

It would be easier with html I guess as most servers already provide a statistics service.