This book provides the richest and most solid introduction to the exciting world of Flash applications, which are becoming increasingly popular as ways of presenting visually rich interfaces to useful data and services. Foundation Flash MX Applications supplies you with the knowledge, techniques, and skills that you need to help you plan, develop, and build Flash-based applications that you can deploy on the Web. • A full-length case study, creating a dynamic Flash message board application. • Designing usable, scalable, and interactive Flash-based applications. • Deploying XML for client/server communication. • Using PHP as an intermediary between XML and back-end data storage. • The MySQL database.