Asp, Access, and Flash

[a.g.r.c]

Hi,

At college we were recently set a project. One that would involve using 4 computer applications overall to compile and present information on the Isle of Arran in Scotland. The presentation will have to cater for the individual and the corporate consumer.

We have to include some form of database where the consumer can call up different places to stay and locations to visit whilst in Arran. Maybe giving relevant info on the specifics, such as price for accomodation etc.

We have to integrate the whole thing so it is relevant. I was thinking, flash and access. Flash being for the presentation side of things with all the corresponding, text, images and media. Then also from the flash movie be able to drag up data from an access database, and then display it within the swf.

I searched google for this, and all the searches i found were talking about php, asp etc.

Anyone know if its possible to do this from the local machine? If not a good tutorial on how to implement it with the http side of things?

Many thanks in advance.

Alistair Rossini

[TheBearMay]

ASP and PHP are server side languages that will, among other things allow you access the information in a database without too much pain. Both can be run on the local machine, but run under an HTTP (web) server. ASP runs under IIS (ASP.Net can also be run under Apache), while PHP will run under IIS or Apache.

[trainstorm]

you might do better to either define all your information in flash arrays and work from them, or create a front-end in html/asp. working with server-side data in flash is not much fun if you have no support. if you want to go down the html/asp route, w3schools (http://www.w3schools.com) offer some priceless, free tutorials.

hope this helps,

TrainStorm (http://www.trainstorm.co.uk)