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Create an intelligent XML image Gallery & Slideshow in Flash CS4 (+PHP) – Part I/II

13. July 2009

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Create an intelligent XML image Gallery & Slideshow in Flash CS4 (+PHP) – Part I/II

In this article you will learn how to build an image gallery that will load images from a web server. I decide to call it "Intelligent" because you don't need to configure any XML or flash file. Just put the Flash movie and the images on a server and they will be loaded automatically. Nice ah?

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Build a contact manager in Flex 3 with ZendAMF; Part Two – Coding the CRUD & Final Release

15. June 2009

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Build a contact manager in Flex 3 with ZendAMF; Part Two – Coding the CRUD & Final Release

The complete result of this 2 part tutorial is a contact manager built in flex that uses ZendAMF to store data in mysql. In the this second part we will code all the application and backend functions using Flex 3 + ZendAMF + Php 5 + MySql. This part will use a general crud system (Create, Read, Update and Delete) that is similar to the most applications needs. You will be able to write you own application from scratch.

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Build a contact manager in Flex with ZendAMF; Part One – Layout; From Photoshop to Flex

20. May 2009

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Build a contact manager in Flex with ZendAMF; Part One – Layout; From Photoshop to Flex

The complete result of this 2 part tutorial is a contact manager built in flex that uses ZendAMF to store data in mysql. In this first part we will learn how to build our own layout in photoshop and implement it on Adobe Flex. We will use a simple layout and you will learn some few tips to keep in mind when designing a layout in photoshop and using it in Adobe Flex.

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Integrate Flex Builder 3.0 & Php easly with the fresh ZendAMF

11. May 2009

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Integrate Flex Builder 3.0 & Php easly with the fresh ZendAMF

In this article I will explain how to build a simple adobe flex application that communicates with php using remote objects calls to the new AMF php implementation suported by adobe and called ZendAMF.

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How to create a simple Flash/PHP mail contact form with Actionscript 3.0 and MySQL

31. March 2009

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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.

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A simple PHP mail contact form with MySQL

17. February 2009

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A simple PHP mail contact form with MySQL

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.

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Creating a Weather Widget with XML and Actionscript 3.0

16. July 2008

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Creating a Weather Widget with XML and Actionscript 3.0

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.

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Create a Flickr Viewer using Flex

17. June 2008

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Create a Flickr Viewer using Flex

In this tutorial, you will learn how to integrate photos from Flickr in your Flex application, using as3flickrlib.

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Creating A Downloader For YouTube with Flex/Air

12. June 2008

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Creating A Downloader For YouTube with Flex/Air

YouTube’s mixed easy movie access with community uploads to create a startling new service. The online problem is that you can only access YouTube when you are online. How can you access those movies when you are offline? Let’s solve that problem by building a downloader with Flex and AIR. In this article we will build a cross platform application that searches for YouTube videos and then provides a mechanism to download those videos and view them locally. You will be able to take your favorite YouTube videos with you wherever you go.

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