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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I was working on my huge "SQL through php to make XML eaten by Flash and I win pretty interface" project. Or "Hyper Interface" for short. It's a maddening process indeed. So here I am in the good ol' asylum, driven crazy once again. I know I've asked a few of you about this before. I don't remember who sent me the php script last time. DL-44 if I'm guessing right. ANYWAYS, this is what happened: [url=http://home.osysi.net/editor.php]http://home.osysi.net/editor.php[/url] (don't go crazy...) [url=http://home.osysi.net/parser4.php]http://home.osysi.net/parser4.php[/url] Bit of explanation: it's like a tree. The result in flash will be a sort of web. buttons will sprawl out from the root. Click one, it moves to the center. It's respected root links (or 'folders') are then released -- sort of the same way that you can get through [url=http://www.visualthesaurus.com]The Visual Thesaurus[/url]. Also look at [url=http://surface.yugop.com/]Yugop's site[/url] Click the left-most or first radio button at the bottom. [img]http://home.osysi.net/plan.gif[/img] (note that this image shows SQL tables and XML output that are totally inaccurate to the current version) So, that's what I did. The <blob> tag is used for everything, but the attributes inside are very detailed. After I started trying to figure out how to get the XML in to flash (yeah, i relized that i might be working this in the wrong direction) I noticed it's not very pretty. arrays have to be set up, and it'l be looking for specific tag names inside other defined tag names. It's all very concrete before it even starts entering data. [i]My data[/i] is very expansive, which is why I decided to sue the same tag for everything. I don't know how else to do it when the possibilities are so... unpredictable. [b]So here's my question(s)[/b]: 1. If you've ever worked with XML in flash, I hear that it's good to keep things in attributes instead of tags inside tags. I did that. But what about using the same tag for everything like <data> which is vague, or in my case, <blob>? 2. How much could a woodcheck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck would? 3. Green is written in red, so which one do you read with which side of your brain? 4. True or false. A man offered to call you up on the tellephone and make monkey sounds. The offer was auctioned on ebay for over a hundred dollars. [edit]typos. extra notes. formatting errors.. blah[/edit] [url=http://www.osysi.net] [img]http://www.osysi.net/files/sigs/asylum_flow.gif[/img] [/url] Shine and shine. :: [Cell=[url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/FaqWiki/shownode.php?id=992&sortby=rating]992[/url]] :: [[url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum11/HTML/000532.html]See my team's 30 second animation[/url]] [This message has been edited by Bmud (edited 01-15-2004).] Loading...
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