A list of useful references: images hyperlinked to publishers websites for further information
References
 'Foundation Actionscript Animation' by Keith Peters ISBN 1-59059-518-1, which I found to be an excellent reference for anyone wanting to gain a good grounding in animation with Flash Actionscript 2.0. The book covers topics ranging from the Flash authoring environment to complex 2D animation and concludes with a good introduction to 3D animation in Flash. However one of the features lacking in my resources was a treatment of the wider applications of Actionscript. Features such as communicating and exchanging data with other applications, such as PHP and MySQL were not discussed. |
 'Foundation PHP5 for Flash' by David Powers, ISBN 1-59059-466-5 provides some excellent coverage of the subject of extending Flash beyond animating in particular, interfacing Flash with MySQL via PHP5 with adaptions for PHP4. |
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It covers the subject more thoroughly than Dreamweaver8 for Dummies with worked examples of customising the PHP code generated automatically by Dreamweaver. |
 'Dreamweaver 8 for Dummies', by Sue Jenkins, Michele E. Davis and Jon A. Phillips, ISBN 0-471-78142-8, has also proven to be a valuable aid for demystifying that application, particularly useful in it’s coverage of the Dreamweaver connectivity for MySQL/PHP. |
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 'PHP and MySQL Web Development' (Third Edition), by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson, ISBN 0-672-32672-8 (Sams Publishing), provides a more in depth look at PHP5 and MySQL than does the 'PHP for Dreamweaver8' reference. |
 'PHP Cookbook' by David Sklar and Adam Trachtenberg, ISBN-13: 978-0-596-10101-5, SAFARI books, provides numerous useful code snippets and discussions. |
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