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Flex Data Management 03 - Storing data in a relational DB on a remote server

The first and the second part of this tutorial covered the topics reading data from a relational DB and transforming the data into a suitable (XML) format so that Flex can use this data to establish a DataProvider setting up a (editable) DataGrid with the DataProvider and checking user input for consistencySo now we’re ready to send the updated data back to our server: whenever the user changes the row ...

Flex Data Management 02 - handling DataGrid input

The previous part of this tutorial was all about reading data from a mysql database and reformatting this data so that we can easily load it into a DataGrid. This second part is about validating input data from the user. As some columns of our DataGrid are editable, we have to check whether the user's input is acceptable at all before sending the new data back to ...

Flex Data Management 01 - reading data from a remote DB using the HTTPService Class

As the DataGrid class in Flex is the perfect tool for managing table data, we also need an efficient and reliable way to store these data. The example here uses an HTTPService to retrieve the data from a remote webserver and to send update packages back to it. This Tutorial uses an example user management tool for a community site. Users can be (de-)activated, their credits and status within ...

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