forum!?

[joshman7]

hey, im just wandering if its possible to make a forum entirely with flash?. mainly because my website doesnt support php or javascript so i cant use it. also if you can can someone link me to a good tutorial

[Lolzer]

Here's a good tutorial m8 :) Made it myself, it almost covers everything you need to know about flash :)
Lolzer's Flash Tutorial
Hope this helped :)

[Kuoke]

At 4/2/08 04:11 AM, Lolzer wrote: Here's a good tutorial m8 :) Made it myself, it almost covers everything you need to know about flash :)
Lolzer's Flash Tutorial
Hope this helped :)

No need to advertise your flash. -_-

Anyway, the closest you can get, efficiently, would be a chatroom.

[joshman7]

cheers mate, it didnt really help tho. i need to make a forum in flash and your tutorial didnt cover that sorry

[joshman7]

wait sorry i was talkig to lolz, your chat room thing is good

[joshman7]

were is the sorce file?

[GuyWithHisComp]

Neither a flash forum nor a flash chat can be made without external scripts/applications.
For a chat you're going to need some sort of Socket Server (or load php/asp)
For a forum in flash you can load php files which will send the required information to your flash file and it can print the results.

[adam2510]

At 4/2/08 04:21 AM, joshman7 wrote: cheers mate, it didnt really help tho. i need to make a forum in flash and your tutorial didnt cover that sorry

you could do flash/xml forum but that will be extremly hard

[GuyWithHisComp]

It's not hard. Atleast not hard in Flash. The hard part is the PHP but for people who have developed their own basic forums it should be no problem.
In flash, just use LoadVars to load PHP in to the flash and Flash can do whatever with the input it gets from the PHP. Like create a table for instance.

[Pixelwelder]

At 4/2/08 03:47 AM, joshman7 wrote: hey, im just wandering if its possible to make a forum entirely with flash?. mainly because my website doesnt support php or javascript so i cant use it. also if you can can someone link me to a good tutorial

Question 1: It's possible to create a forum front end completely in Flash, but you still need a server-side scripting language (e.g. PHP) to connect your front end to everybody else's. The only way around that would be by using persistent SharedObjects on Flash Media Server, but that would be nasty and hacky. Except that you'd instantly see post replies, which could be nice. Still, a database and a server-side scripting language are the way to go.

[DarkScythes]

Yes, it's been done before. I've seen one.

I expect it to be extremely difficult to recreate it though.

[fwe]

At 4/2/08 06:01 PM, DarkScythes wrote: Yes, it's been done before. I've seen one.

I expect it to be extremely difficult to recreate it though.

No you havnt. What you have probably seen is the front end of the forum in flash, but driven by a backend in php

[madlyinsane]

You NEED mysql or some other form of database to make a forum, and as far as I know you need php to send the information to that data base securely, best thing i can suggest is just use a third party one (Bravenet.com has a good one I think), you may even be able to embed it into your site.

[Luis]

im locking this topic. people knowledgeable in whats going on already stated many times the answer is no you cant. this is redundant.