Loading external data into Flash

[Darren Le]

Hi all,

I am doing some kind of quiz app. The problem is that I need to find a way to store all the questions. This storage interacts with the app in 2 ways: question stored can be extracted to display in the app + the user can use the app to add question to the database. The displaying part and the interface to add questions are done, I'm just troubled with the actual storage of data 'cause everything I've done till now only involves temporal input which is not stored whatsoever.

'Cause I'm highly unfamiliar with external data manipulation, I'd like some suggestion and directions to achieve a good system to handle these 2 functions.

Thank all!

[Nig 13]

You said you were storing the questions in a database? If so, then use PHP or another server-side scripting language to add the questions

[Darren Le]

Thanks for that.
However, I cannot code php at all.
That's why at this stage of the app, I only intend it to be used offline as a model to test other functionalities. So I will just be streaming data from some files into Flash and use Flash to add information to this database.
If that's the case, any suggestion?

[rynoe]

The AIR platform will allow you to read, write and create files. Which then you could use XML or plain text files to store and retrieve data from your PC.

[Darren Le]

Thanks. I will settle with text files first.

I plan to export this to Android using Air. Will the same function (meaning store and retrieve from text files) remains?

And is there some good tutorials on this?