This application shows you how to integrate a Flash application with a Soap-based Web service. A good starting place for reviewing the code and example for an application combining Flash, PHP, and Soap.

Convert currency's between 40 different countries. Useful to review and learn how to use web services with Flash. This example uses one of the PHP Soap Toolkits to grab the current exchange rate between any two countries - then displays it back within Flash. Also useful to offer your visitors a way to convert currency's on your Web site.

For a preloader to behave smoothly and accurately it is important to take some parameters into accounts. This tutorial will show two methods that can be used to retrieve the amount of data loaded, the first one will use the onEnterFrame event and the second method will use SetInterval.

Why importing heavy bitmaps in Flash when, with a bit of patience, you should be able to create fancy 3D chrome effect using vector graphics.

Allow your visitor's to send Flash e-cards with customized text and messages to anyone by e-mail. The system is set up a much like a simplified version of the online Hallmark or Blue Mountain e-cards application. The complete FLA files as well as the PHP scripts are included in the download. This resource is intended more as a learning resource then a complete application. You can use this on any server that has PHP installed.

This tutorial shows you how to create a simple Guestbook in Flash. The guestbook is simple, efficient, fast, and easy to implement. One swf, one script, and one text file. In this example we use a PHP script but after you understand how it works it should be fairly easy to write the same script in Perl, ASP, or Cold Fusion.

In this tutorial, we will consume the Barnes and Noble Price Quote as a Web service from XMethods by using Flash MX to create the user interface and NuSOAP as a toolkit for the SOAP protocol.

Tutorials on Flash & Actionscript including: snowing effect, playing sound, hyperlink button, interacting with javascripts... etc.