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Anonymous
May 29, 2011
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Pulling info from MS SQL Server into flash with Cold Fusion

  • May 29, 2011
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Hey Everyone,

Let me start off by saying I'm in a bit of a time crunch and that I am a complete noob when it comes to MS SQL and ColdFusion.  With that said, I think what I am trying to do is very basic.  So here goes.

I have a database that is set up on a MS SQL sever.  (Which can not use PHP apperently.)  I also have a flash program.  I need to get some information from the database into the flash program Run the flash program, and then once the program has run, return some info to a different database.

This seems like its one of those tip of the iceburg simple projects, to nail down some basics, but I could be wrong.

Does anyone have some basic tuts or information they can give to help me get this done in a relatively timely mannor?  If you need more information let me know I wasnt sure what to include since this is my first Cold Fusion rodeo.  Thanks for the help in advance.

K

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Adam Cameron.
Inspiring
May 29, 2011

Does anyone have some basic tuts or information they can give to help me get this done in a relatively timely mannor?  If you need more information let me know I wasnt sure what to include since this is my first Cold Fusion rodeo.  Thanks for the help in advance.

Is this the sort of thing you're after: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=coldfusion+flash+tutorial&l=1

I've never used that site, but there's various odds 'n' sods in there covering Flash->CF-DB interactivity.

One thing:

I have a database that is set up on a MS SQL sever.  (Which can not use PHP apperently.)

Just by the way you're wording that makes me wonder whether you do know that you will need to have a CF server to run any CF stuff, yeah?

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Adam

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Anonymous
May 30, 2011

This answer wasnt very helpful and a bit on the rude side I think.  I mentioned i am completely new at this whole CF and FLASH thing.  I have googled a million things but nothing is making sense.

Anyways, could someone please let me know fro starters what are the necessary pieces I need to get this to work.  For a quick summary.  We have a MS SQL server a database with some info and a Flash program with as3.

We need to get the flash program pulling information from the database.  We found out we need to use cold fusion as the communication method instead of PHP since its MS SQL.  Can someone elaborate more on the actual connection process.  We were told we need a program called Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to manage the server.

Can someone please shed light on what else we need or what some steps are.  We need any information we can get.

Also we seem to need to know a directory path to something like flashservices/gateway/ so that flash can communicate with a Database using a CFM file?  Can someone possibly elaborate on this?  Thanks

T
tooMuchTrouble
Inspiring
May 30, 2011

server side you need these installed:

1) coldfusion

2) sql server

how you talk to cf/sql server depends on what you want done & how you want to do

things client side.

i don't develop clientside in pure AS3, always flex which uses remoting to talk

to cf. i suppose you could use remoting from AS3 as well but it might be easier

(remoting requires that you build coldfusion componentsCFCserverside) to use

cf's serverside AS: http://adobe.ly/jIvYEN

besides google (as adam pointed out), adobe cookbooks are a good resource:

http://cookbooks.adobe.com/home

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