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Title: Server-Side Flash: Scripts, Databases and Dynamic Development by William B. Sanders, Mark Winstanley ISBN: 0-7645-3598-6 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: July, 1901 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99

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Average Customer Rating: 4.1 (21 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Highly Useful Book
Comment: I bought this book not knowing what to expect, the description promised quite a bit of know-how was contained within. Pleased to say it was well worth it. Prior to getting this book, I'd gotten good with ActionScript and JavaScript but to hook Flash up with any back-end scripting for my clients I've always been calling other people to consult and half the time had to just go with HTML instead. I always had a fear of any of those 3-letter languages (CGI/ASP/PHP) since the few books I'd gotten on them were way to heavy on programming theory and usually lacking on real world examples, and definitely never had an example of how to connect those things to Flash! There's a good sampling of how to connect Flash to everything here, and working through the examples let me finally understand many concepts that previously had been just out of my grasp. You won't become a master database programmer, but so what, this is a Flash integration book, and if I was doing nothing but databases all day I'd be bored out of my mind. Flash is about mixing great visuals with programming and Server Side Flash has filled in a lot of the missing pieces in my Flash and programming knowledge-base.

Rating: 5
Summary: A complete and easy steps book
Comment: This book is awesome; it explains how to use Flash integration with the most common used server-side programming languages (PHP, ASP and Perl)...

All separated by parts, and it explains some of the functions and methods of the programming languages, just for letting the reader who doesn't deal with certain server-side languages more confortable to understand it.

Really good book, it solved all my problems with database and server integration with Flash.

Rating: 4
Summary: Note: Book is about Flash 5, not FlashMX or Flash Remoting
Comment: This isn't a criticism of the book, but pay attention that it's from 2001 and covers Flash 5, NOT the latest Flash MX and its available Flash Remoting technology which offers far easier server-side integration.

Still, the info in the book still has value today to those who have not yet bought Flash MX. Indeed, even if you have Flash Mx, if your server is Perl, PHP, CF5, etc, then the approaches here will work since the new Flash Remoting only works on CFMX, ASP.NET, and select J2EE platforms.

Then again, MX users who do get the book should check out the newer LoadVars object as an alternative to the older but still supported LoadVariables. The approach to processing XML is also vastly improved in MX.

Of course, the book can't be faulted for having come out prior to MX. It's just that since the title doesn't say Flash 5, if you buy the book thinking it's about the latest and greatest ways of doing Flash/server integration, you'd likely be disappointed. Just offering this as a caution.

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