[superblue]

I'm looking into building a little system for sending out the company's new year cards this year. I want to send out cards with invidual ID numbers on them, which when entered at the company's website, give the user their personal message via a Flash animation.

I have resonable knowledge of Flash (on the design/animation side of things) but next to nothing when it comes to databases, xml etc...

As it's a non-earner, I want to cut production down to the minimum - ideally a simple flash file which takes the appropriate message from an external file, and loads that message into a text field that'll automatically scroll if necessary.

Just wanted to see how you guys would handle the project if it was you doing it - get off on the right foot as it were. Any suggestions welcome! Thanks.

[redJag]

The hard part would be building the database, but once it was done you could use it again later for similar projects. I'd create a database, have it assign a unique number to everyone (use the default one in MySQL...key somethin' or other), and then use fields for first name, last name, address, number, etc etc. Then a simple query by ID # brings up all the data you need, yay.