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fcarrera - who has written 4 posts on Flash Platform and ActionScript Tutorials.
Fausto Carrera is a industrial designer natural from Ecuador but living in Argentina.
He have 8 years of experience developing websites with html and Flash, since php3 and Flash 5.
His strengths are developing applications with Flash mixing it with MySQL and PHP, because Flash have a huge potential to deliver better multimedia experience. He have personal blog at www.faustocarrera.com.ar
How to create a simple Flash/PHP mail contact form with Actionscript 3.0 and MySQL
In this tutorial I'm gonna show you how to improve our simple php, sending the info by mail and saving it on a MySQL DataBase using a custom MySQL class that we could reuse anytime and phpMailer, an open source class to send mails. And, of course, we gonna use a flash form to send the form instead of the html form.
Continue reading...A simple PHP mail contact form with MySQL
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Welcome to the first PHP tutorial on TheTechLabs.com. In this tutorial I'm gonna show you how to make a simple php contact form for any website, sending the info by mail and saving it on a MySQL DataBase. This tutorial will be like an intro to a more detailed and complex series of php articles that in the end will result on the interaction of php and flash in a cms system. Hope you enjoy the tutorial.
Continue reading...Creating a Weather Widget with XML and Actionscript 3.0
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
In this tutorial I'm presenting you a little weather widget, that could come handy for travel websites, or our personal page. If you make some changes on the code, you could show a different interface on your website, according to the weather on your city. Pretty cool stuff. We gonna connect weather.com XML data file with our flash widget. Weather.com offers us a free service to do that.
Continue reading...Make your own Flickr search engine with Flash and Actionscript 3.0
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Flickr stores on their servers, photos form all their users around the world, and they have an open api so you could interact with it, and make your own developments, like PicNik.com, the photos online editor, where you could import your Flickr photos and make it look really cool. Now in this tutorial I'm gonna show you how to interact with the flickr data base, making your own photo search engine, looking for tags on the photos.
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