Ryan Campbell » MySQL http://www.ryancampbell.com Flex/Flash Developer Blog Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:59:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 MySQL access in Adobe Flex http://www.ryancampbell.com/2007/03/16/mysql-access-in-adobe-flex/ http://www.ryancampbell.com/2007/03/16/mysql-access-in-adobe-flex/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:51:19 +0000 Ryan Campbell http://wp.bobjim.com/wordpress/2007/03/16/mysql-access-in-adobe-flex/ Over the last few days I've been writing a shared library to connect directly to MySQL in ActionScript (a great way to learn the Socket and ByteArray classes ha). The code is now compiling without any errors or warnings but still needs a lot of testing. Over the weekend I'll make sure everything works correctly and also make it more Flex-friendly. I think it would be pretty cool to be able to query the db directly from ActionScript and have the results bindable to a DataGrid.

Although connecting directly to MySQL from Flash probably isn't the best idea for most applications, I'm mainly doing this for the learning experience. My plans are the following:

1. Complete the ActionScript MySQL Client
2. Modify/abstract the code to allow other database drivers (JDBC, ODBC, DBI, PDO-ish style)
3. Code a simple object-to-relational mapping framework (Similar to ActiveRecord)
4. Build a database administration app using the Flex framework

I'll keep everyone updated on my progress and I'll release the code as it is completed. I hope to hear anyones comments on similar ideas.

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