Four Ways to Transfer Data Between Flash and PHP

When you need to develop a web form with a special design and great effects, you will probably elect to use Flash. But building and programming Flash forms is considerably different from building standard HTML-based forms. You program Flash using its proprietary (but JavaScript-like) ActionScript language—which is great if you're already a Flash developer—but as a PHP developer it's is more desirable to implement the business logic in PHP and use the Flash form simply to gather the data. To do that though, you need to know how to access data in the Flash form and (sometimes) how to update the Flash form from PHP as well. That's exactly what you will see how to accomplish in this article.