looking for tutorial on creating a blog in Flash

[Spirit Wolf]

Hi,

I'm creating another personal website for myself. But in this website I want to make a section that is more dynamic than I previously have done with flash.

Now I want to make something like a blog I guess. The first page wil only contain the titles of the posts and of course will be clickable. Clicking will bring up the content of that subject and will also allow to post/view comments on that subject. ... So I guess it's a blog .
I'm someone who doesn't like to use a lot of components. Mainly because I want full graphical control over things and I allways have trouble like getting rid of the "frame" from a textArea.

I already did some research and AMFPHP seems the way to go for something like this. I also viewed the videotutorials at gotoandlearn.com regarding AMFPHP. But still need some more guidance.
Does anyone know some good tutorials on how to create blogs using Flash CS with AS3.0 and AMFPHP. It would be a great help. I already tried googling, but the only thing I get are real blogs, but not on how to create them using these tools.

Hope somebody can point me into the right direction.

Cheers

ps: I don't know if I'm posting in the right section, so let me know if it doesn't belong here.

[Spirit Wolf]

No one?

A guestbook even would be great. Just need to know how to approach such stuff, since it's the first time coding such stuff.

Cheers

[mneil]

I don't know any tutorials on this. I'm sort of in the process of doing the same thing. I've got a wordpress blog and a flash portfolio I'd like to combine to just make one flash portfolio with a blog. The basic problem is this:

flash can't communicate directly with a DB which you'll want for a blog, there's too much info for just xml files plus security for users.

php or asp has to get the DB info, then parse it out to readable xml for flash with xml socket or send a huge string that flash has to parse, then flash has to destroy all the work php did and parse the xml back into something usable like the contents from the DB originally were.

I may be wrong here, but it's a huge pain in the ass. But, I've found a solution that is currently working for me that might also help you. I'll leave you with some links and a little explaination.

http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/phpmysql/1
Above is a great link that teaches you basics on php and mySQL. I didn't know a lot before I read this tut, really laid it out for me!

http://www.wordpress.org/
wordpress is just one of many open source blog engines. I've used a lot of code from their engine to help me get info to flash. Especially their DB script because it's likely more secure then I'll know how to make myself, plus it's documented.

http://www.amfphp.org/
AWESOME. Unfortunately it seems to be a little stale right now but amfphp was, and will be a great, light, easy way for flash to communicate directly, with components, with php. Plus, there are some video tuts on it! It isn't the best way to do it from what I can tell there are many other AMF php scripts out there but I see this one talked about a lot.

http://framework.zend.com/
If you want to get hardcore use this one. It's where amfphp is going and where as3 is based. Why use the others above when you can write your own from scratch? Well, because it's easier that's why. But, if you've got the time and you're learned in programming then this is where it's at.


DISCLAIMER: I'm not that awesome at programming. In fact, I'm amatuerish at best so take my comments with a grain of salt but this is what is helping me! Good luck.

[chrisranjana]

Here is an actual php mysql guestbook using actionscript tutorial

Flash 5 with php