I don't think Flash does queries. It does as your Flash guy says, send a request and receives responses - that is Flash remoting. So yes, you should write CFCs that Flash will send requests to.
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Robert Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We're developing a data driven site where the front end will run in Flash. > I've written all the admin programs in CF. These handle all the DB updates > and ancillary file management. > > Now we've looking at how to run the queries on the display side (flash). I > was expecting the Flash programmer to connect directly to the DB, run > queries from inside flash, and use the data to fill the flash page. I > thought that was Flash Remoting. > > The flash programmer, however, wants me to write all the queries in CF > pages. He'll pass data to my CF pages, CF will do the queries, and I'll pass > back these big chunks of XML data (or strings). To me this seems a bit > questionable. If the DB can be queried directly from Flash wouldn't that be > more efficient? > > Anyone have an ideas? > > Run queries in CF and pass large data chunks into flash OR > connect flash to the SQL server (through a web service or something) > and run the queries from there? > > Which is right/best? > > Thanks, > Robert > > > Robert B. Harrison > Director of Interactive services > Austin & Williams > 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 Hauppauge NY 11788 > T : 631.231.6600 Ext. 119 > F : 631.434.7022 > www.austin-williams.com > > Great advertising can't be either/or... It must be &. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:301600 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
