Certainly you don't have to (abandon PHP that is :)). I have just set up a module for a site that we are working on right now that uses amfphp (ActionScript Message Format for php). They are still in beta (it's open source code), currently in the 0.9 version and from what I have seen is fully functional. You'll also need to download flash remoting from Macromedia to ensure getting things to work. Another option if you wanted is to use SOAP with the WebServiceConnector; we did this for another site although I will say that the speed difference between the two is amazing. The only way that I'd use SOAP (as it does still have it's uses) would be for connecting to data from say Amazon, but from here on out for our site's internal needs we will be using amfphp for Flash Remoting. You can get amfphp a the following URL: http://www.amfphp.org/ <http://www.amfphp.org/> . I'm not sure if you are using a CMS or not but we've set ours up as a Xaraya module and we can not use Flash and Xaraya seamlessly. Let me know if you have any questions on set up or usage within Flash. Michael Dunn Web Development INHS/IRM (509) 232-8258 dunnm@xxxxxxxx
