Flash MX 2004 Games : Art to ActionScript

Figure 14.8 Setting user permissions
Chapter 14: Quizzes
You now have a database that the user ‘quiz’ can access to select rows from the table ‘quiz’,
update the data stored there and insert new rows.
Inputting the data
To make the inputting of data easy we will create a Flash-based input tool. Open
‘Examples\Chapter14\createquiz.fla’. This project uses the new Flash components to create a
tool that allows the developer to read and update the database. Access to the database is via ASP
pages. ASP pages can run on your local machine if it is set up as an IIS, Internet Information
Server, or you can run them on a remote server. Before we look at how the ‘createquiz.fla’ project
works we will look at the ASP pages it uses.
Connecting to the database using ASP
When using a database the first thing we must do is to connect to it. Because all our pages will
use it, we will put this code in a file that can be included in all the other files. As well as creating
the connection to the database the code snippet includes the definitions of a few constants that
will be used by other pages. ‘adCmdText’, ‘adCmdTable’ and ‘adCmdStoredProc’ are just useful
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