FLASH: shopping cart interfaces

[[ . Raskolnikov ]]

>as far as the shopping cart goes I think there is a tutorial on that In the

>Flash Magic 4 book.  Slightly out of date, but I bet the techniques would

>work the same.



Thanx for the tip, I'd like to find the info without $trings attached.. but

if worse

comes to worst, that will be very valuable.


The whole reason I need something like this is to put the inventory of my

friends record store onto their webpage, and since I don't want to learn

perl script or API stuff I figured flash would be the easiest bet.. but

probably

the least versitile.


just some add note questions about this subject:


1) is flash 4 very suited for this, or should I upgrade to flash 5 before

starting

into this (I'm not sure if the new version has any added features that would

make the interface better.. does it?).


2) Can somebody point me towards a site that utilizes flash for this

purpose...

I'd like to see it in action before I choose this for the best direction.


3) a very obvious problem hit me while in the shower earlier today, what

about

the database? Is it a realistic possibility to make a flash site with a

user side searchable (and administrator updatable) database of information?


for the site I'm outlining I need to have the customers


a) be able to search for their product by artist/title/label

b) be able to update this information weekly


[and]


c) have an interface with a shopping cart and checkout function


if flash isn't capable of doing this, what programs would I need to realise

this? I know only basic javascript, but am willing to learn what I need to

complete this assignment (mainly to learn it.. the pay isn't that great ;)..


if this isn't the best forum for this question, could you please tell me of

another that might be.


(:: me.





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