Flash and XML: A Developer's Guide

from SQL Over the past few chapters we have learned why a DBMS is superior to a flat file. But so far our working system transmitted...

We exclusively write PHP code in this chapter (although one of the PHP commands we learn can take MySQL code as a parameter). PHP has...

PHP has gobs of useful commands and methods for MySQL. We can string them together to amend, update, and retrieve specific information from database tables....

No more commands that return pointers are introduced in this chapter. The remainder of these functions do not access any SQL database at all, but...

We can fetch a row three different ways. Essentially each way retrieves a single record, the one being pointed to, and returns it in a...

We will use the rand command to determine which question to send via XML to the client. We find the minimum and maximum QuIDs and...

Another possibility is that we can just get all the questions and set the internal pointer to a random row. While it does require a...

Now the PHP code we wrote in truly does what it is supposed to. Congratulations. Our trivia game now has a Flash interface that reads...