Creating a customized video using Flash and XML

Posted by Aaron Ladage on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Aaron Ladage
Published on 2011-01-04T18:49:09Z Indexed on 2011/01/04 18:54 UTC
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The problem: I have to create a Flash video (in CS3) that will query a MySQL database and display that data at certain points in the video. The bigger problem: I'm not a Flash/ActionScript developer, so this is all very foreign to me!

I've divided this project into two parts: a.) dynamically generate an XML feed from the data using PHP (using an ID number passed in the URL's query string), and b.) be able to work with it in Flash. I've got the first part working, but am pretty lost in Flash. I can parse the XML, but I'm not sure how to set the data up as variables and attach it to a video's cue points.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a good tutorial or offer some advice?

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