Actionscript
First you will have to get a basic understanding on how to handle XML data within Flash. Senocular has written some great tutorials on this subject, which you can find in the Actionscript tutorials section.

If you feel like you're ready for it already, then take a look at the following actionscript. This needs to go into the first frame of the flash movie:

var currPage = 0;

var showAmount = 10; // set this to the amount of entries you want to view at a time

previous._visible = false;

createMessage._visible = false;

createButton.onRelease = function(){

this._visible = false;

this._parent.createMessage._visible = true;

if (createMessage.nameField.text == ""){

Selection.setFocus(createMessage.nameField);

}

else if (createMessage.messageField.text == ""){

Selection.setFocus(createMessage.messageField);

}

}

 

// **** Load XML ****************************

myXML = new XML();

myXML.ignoreWhite = true;

receiverXML = new XML();

 

myXML.onLoad = function(success){

myXML.contentType = "text/xml";

if (success){

this.showXML();

}

else{

trace("Error loading XML file");

}

}

myIdentifier=Math.round(Math.random()*10000);

myXML.load("guestbook.xml?uniq="+myIdentifier);

 

receiverXML.onLoad = function(){

this.contentType = "text/xml";

_root.currPage = 0;

this.showXML();

}

createMessage.closeButton.onRelease = function(){

this._parent._visible = false;

createButton._visible = true;

}

createMessage.sendButton.onRelease = function(){

var myName = this._parent.nameField.text;

var myMessage = this._parent.messageField.text;

if (myName == ""){

this._parent.errorField.text = "please fill out your name";

Selection.setFocus(this._parent.nameField);

}

else if (myMessage == ""){

this._parent.errorField.text = "please leave a message";

Selection.setFocus(this._parent.messageField);

}

else {

myXML.firstChild.appendChild(myXML.createElement("entry"));

myXML.firstChild.lastChild.attributes.myName = myName;

myXML.firstChild.lastChild.appendChild(myXML.createElement("myText"));

myXML.firstChild.lastChild.lastChild.appendChild(myXML.createTextNode(myMessage));

myXML.sendAndLoad("processXML.php", receiverXML);

this._parent._visible = false;

createButton._visible = true;

}

}

XML.prototype.showXML = function(){

myGuestbook.scroll = 1;

myGuestbook.htmlText = "";

var numItems = this.firstChild.childNodes.length;

var firstItem = numItems - (currPage*showAmount);

if (currPage == 0) previous._visible = false;

var lastItem = firstItem - showAmount ;

if (lastItem<=0) {

lastItem = 0;

next._visible = false;

}

myCount.text = "Total messages: " + numItems;

if (firstItem == lastItem+1) nowShowing.text = "Showing message " + firstItem;

else nowShowing.text = "Showing message " + firstItem + " to " + (lastItem + 1);

for (i=(firstItem-1); i>= lastItem; i--){

myGuestbook.htmlText += "<B>" + this.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.myName + "</B> wrote:\n";

myGuestbook.htmlText += this.firstChild.childNodes[i].firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue + "\n\n";

}

}

previous.onRelease = function(){

currPage--;

myXML.showXML();

next._visible = true;

}

next.onRelease = function(){

currPage++;

myXML.showXML();

previous._visible = true;

}

Are you still here? I didn't scare you away now did I? Alright, onto the next page then because I owe you a bit of an explanation.