Ideas for a donation thermometer

[MarcusRaven]

I had an idea for a goal oriented donation thermometer, but I want to style it in the way of Mega Man X's health bar, and have one of the health pellets fill in for every $10 donated. I understand actionscript to a certain degree, but I can't for the life of me wrap my head around where I'm going to get the current donation value from.

Is there a way to have a flash animation check my Paypal balance? Or is there another feasible solution? Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

[MintPaw]

Here's a rough start, it's not gonna be easy if you're not used to RESTful apis.

[MarcusRaven]

At 8/21/14 11:50 AM, MintPaw wrote: Here's a rough start, it's not gonna be easy if you're not used to RESTful apis.

Yeah, when it comes to PHP, I have no understanding whatsoever. If there was a feasible example out there where I could plug my Paypal API credentials into it, then have actionscript pull the result of the GetBalance action and store in a variable, I can make the mathmatic statement to figure out the bar. I just don't understand how to cover those first two parts. My experience with actionscript is loading bars and play buttons, but even then I usually modified examples to make them. >.<

[milchreis]

At 8/21/14 12:27 PM, MarcusRaven wrote:

At 8/21/14 11:50 AM, MintPaw wrote: Here's a rough start, it's not gonna be easy if you're not used to RESTful apis.

Yeah, when it comes to PHP, I have no understanding whatsoever.

But you are not building a PHP application, so that doesn't matter.
The servers could be programmed in PHP, but this doesn't matter either, because you just send a request to that server.
All requests follow a certain protocol.

It doesn't matter what programming language on the client side talks to which language on the server, as long as they follow the protocol.