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Hi Keith,



I think the reason Flex doesn't have it's own 'mysql_connect'
is that *.SWFs are executed on the clients computer. The DBMS is
running on a server - for example at your webhost. Access to the
DBMS is most of the time restricted to localhost or certain trusted
IPs or domains (security) and furthermore the client running your
application would have to have a database-driver installed to
communicate with the DB-server.



As far as I understand, those are (at least some of ?) the
reasons why client-side scripting-languages like javascript and
flash cannot provide direct connection to DBMS.