Flash MX 2004 Games : Art to ActionScript

Flash MX 2004 Games
10 //Connect to the database
11 var conn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection");
12 var connStr = "PROVIDER=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; DATA SOURCE=" +
13 Server.Mappath("register.mdb") + ";" + "Password=;";
14 conn.Open(connStr);
15
16 var rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset");
17 var sqlStr = "SELECT * FROM Users WHERE name=\’" + name +
18 "\’ AND pw=\’" + pw + "\’";
19
20 rs.Open( sqlStr, conn);
21
22 var str;
23
24 if (!rs.EOF){
25 str = ("loggedIn=true&message=Welcome back " + name);
26 Session("loggedIn") = true;
27 Session("playerID") = String(name);
28 Response.Cookies("name") = name;
29 Response.Cookies("name").Expires = getExpireString();
30 }else{
31 str = "loggedIn=false&message=Can’t find you in our database";
32 Session("loggedIn") = false;
33 Session("playerID") = "";
34 }
35
36 Response.Write(str);
37
38 rs.Close();
39 conn.Close();
Listing 21.6
Registering via ASP
First we parse all the data sent to the page and store it in several variables. Then we connect to the
database and build an SQL string. This time the string is an INSERT string that takes the form
INSERT INTO table (field1, ...) VALUES(val1, ...)
This is executed on the current connection. To make a full registration application we should
really check for the existence of a user with the same name, because the ‘name’ field is required
to be unique. We can find out whether a user with the same name exists simply by creating
a recordset from the Users table based on the name value being the same; if this recordset has
any entries then the name has already been used and so we can write back a message to indicate
this and the Flash application can require the user to choose a different name. The function
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