[FMX]Desperate! Beginner needs help!

[valie68]

Along the lines of Yahoo Avatar Messenger. When user clicks their prefs, i.e. skin and eye color, (with the great help of Kirupa, I've figured out the setRGB. Thanx!!!) I need it to save that pref and call the correct mc to the animation stage. And there are two with prefs, i.e. Male and Female. These chosen mc's will then animate in another MC.
I'm making every possible combination and it's taking a very long time.

Is this going to end up being a part PHP/Flash thing??? (terrified but willing to learn)

[lostinbeta]

There are 2 options you have for saving the settings for later use.

1)Shared Objects, which is essentially a cookie for flash. It saves the chosen data to the file on the users system and can read that file and display the correct data when loaded. However this only works one the users system, if the user uses another system, it will not exist. Which brings us to...

2)Yes, it sounds as though you will have to store the preferences within a database and call the data via PHP and load it in with Flash (and vice-versa to save data). Server-Side was never my thing though, so I don't know how to do this.

[valie68]

That's kind of what I was thinking so I'm going to try it another way for now. Thanx!


There are 2 options you have for saving the settings for later use.

1)Shared Objects, which is essentially a cookie for flash. It saves the chosen data to the file on the users system and can read that file and display the correct data when loaded. However this only works one the users system, if the user uses another system, it will not exist. Which brings us to...

2)Yes, it sounds as though you will have to store the preferences within a database and call the data via PHP and load it in with Flash (and vice-versa to save data). Server-Side was never my thing though, so I don't know how to do this.