Ender22

Thanks for the advice guys... It is only 3 xml files total for each user... but yes it still doesn't scale very well. All of my software is already set up to be used with XML so I think I'll take Thorpe's first suggest and just dynamically generate the xml with php then read it into as3 directly. As far as saving information after the swf is finished... (if i was lazy and didnt want to rewrite everything yet) is it possible to store the entire xml code into a database variable before using php to generate the xml? like the entire <thingGroup> <thing> <value1> </value1> <value2> </value2> </thing> </thingGroup> into mysql? Or will I run into problems?

Hey thanks for the help, Just to make sure I understand. Usually the variables are stored in the database, then the xml is generated on the fly once the page loads for each user? So if I use php to create an xml file like suggested, where is a good place to store it on the server before passing it into the swf? And what's a good way to make sure it is accessible by that user and just that user? I actually have my flash generating the xml data already because things are saved from within the swf files... I guess I would rather just use the xml that is already being generated either by storing it all into a mysql variable (if that's possible) or just saving and accessing a physical xml file. I really think the easiest thing would be just to have a couple xml files created for each user stored on the server and then just access them by their filename with mysql when they load the swf files... is that a bad idea for any reason? Or is this okay to try?

Hello everyone. I'm about to code my new website, but I would love to get an opinion from the more experienced out there on how to go about it first. My website will be PHP MySQL based and have multiple users. The users can play different flash files on the site and the flash content will be different depending on different values that are passed into the flash files. As of now I am passing in xml files to the Flash swf's, and I would love to keep it this way as it works great for what I am doing. My question is... what is the best way to give each one of my users their own xml files. (I need 3-5 xml's for each). Should I try to store the xml inside the mysql database then extract it? Should I create an xml file for each user on my server then just put filename variables into the mysql database? Do I need a content managment system (haven't used one of these before). How would you more experienced coders go about this setup? Any advice is much appreciated.