Foundation Flash MX Applications

This book aims to give you a solid foundation in the planning, technical skills, and technological insight required for building dynamic and interactive Flash-based applications. By the end of the book, you'll understand how to combine the different elements of a Flash application together in order to build visually appealing and usable Flash interfaces that interact with server-side scripting languages and database systems to provide an enhanced user experience. Through a series of detailed step-by-step creative exercises, you'll learn how to build user interfaces in Flash, use XML to communicate between the Flash Player and the server, and deploy the PHP server-side scripting language to create a dynamic application. This will also be backed up with a thorough grounding in the concepts of designing Flash-based applications for the Web, incorporating effective application project development and designing usable solutions. Aims and philosophy As its title suggests, the aim of this book is to provide you with a solid foundation in the design, development, and technical implementation of Flash applications. This is too complex and large a subject to detail definitively from scratch in 1000 pages, let alone half that. We give you a solid foundation in the skills required to effectively develop and build a Flash application, giving you the technical insight to take this further and build your own applications in the future.