The Simplest HTML You Will Ever Code

We now have our information in a database that Bubba can easily change from his web browser. However, Flash can't read the data from the default HTML that EZDB creates. Luckily, that's easy to fix.

• You will find a file in the directory my_html called bubba_display.html. Open it and prepare to hack.
• The thing that should stick out to you as you look at this file is that the placeholders for our variables look like this: _variable , where underscore denotes that a variable is to follow.
• Take out everything except the variable placeholders, and format the document the way Flash likes to read it:
  
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  title=_title
  &star=_star
  &rate=_rate
  &time=_time
  &url=_url
  

• Save bubba_display.html and replace it in the my_html directory.
• Now when EZDB displays any record in the bubba database, it will use our revised bubba_display.html as the template. Not much for eyes to look at, but now Flash can read it. Almost.
• EZDB by default also displays a bunch of menu items along with the record. We need to remove this feature for this particular database.
• Click connect.
• Select table_group from the drop-down menu and click connect.
• Click modify.
• Type "bubba" in the search field and submit.
• You should see a list of two table groups: admin_group and default. Select default.
• This is where you select what EZDB will display when a record is called without the user logging in. We want no menu items showing, so we deselect everything in the Show Menu row.
• Deselect all items on the permission row except view.
• Click submit.
  

Note that there will still be an HTML header in EZDB's output, but we're going to leave it like that so that we can use the same instance of the script for Bubba's HTML.

Setting up Bubba's DB
Tricks & Data, Flash Yin & Yang
Calling EZDB from Flash