PHP/Flash advice

Looking to start a project that would require me to use Flash or Flex (I have not worked with either of these yet, yikes!!!). Flash would be the front end user interface that needs to display items pulled from a MySQL Database (I was thinking ajax via jQuery but open to suggestions). My question is, What would be the best approach for something like this?

High level

Flash calls to display image through ajax/php from Db

I don't know how to code the Flash part, any tutorials that kinda sou开发者_如何学编程nd like what I'm doing? suggestions? thoughts? other ideas?

Side Note: The database table will contain text that describes the image being passed to flash, so I would like to display both the text and image.

Thanks for any advice/help, --Phill

I'd recommend you try AMFPHP or ZendAMF. Both of these use AMF3 (which requires you to use Actionscript 3/FlashCS3+), and it is one of the quickest ways to get data into Flash.

You could also use php to generate an xml file and just request that url in Flash to load up the XML. You can also use ajax like you said, but it's probably going to be the slowest method open to you, unless you're working with very small data sets.

Regardless of the method you choose, I'd suggest you use Actionscript 3. It's much faster and if you use XML, it'll be a life saver.

Here's a tutorial about setting up flash to work with PHP & MySQL: link