Flash CGI functionality: Is this harder than HTML?

Can Flash and Perl get along?

[martinibuster]

How difficult is it to make perl scripts funtion through a totally flash interface?

Are there any good books or online tutorials on this? I may need to add a guestbook to a clients 100% Flash site.

Thanks!

[andreasfriedrich]

While I know of neither book nor tutorial I know for sure that making perl scripts function through a totally flash interface is not harder than linking to a HTML page from that flash interface.

Flash and Perl get along fine. One sits on the server the other on the client. They communicate via HTTP and HTML. No problems AFAIK.

Andreas

[korkus2000]

It is the same as using php or asp. No problem. They just isn't much info on the web using perl. If you know asp you can look at this tutorial and just replace the asp with perl.

[asp101.com...]

[BlobFisk]

A nice new feature that came with Flash MX is the ability to create your own URL Query Strings. IIRC, in previous Flash versions submitting a form sent all variables within the swf in the Query String - however, now you can just send the relevant ones:

getURL("http://my.site.com/myFormPage.asp?name=BlobFisk&location=Ireland");

A feature I thought was quite nice.

[martinibuster]

Great responses! Makes me feel better about an upcoming project.
Thanks!

[dhdweb]

Try looking on flashkit.com for guestbook scripting with flash.

Also search for "web forms and flash".

It is very easy to do, no harder than setting up a guestbook in HTML.

dhdweb