Last Week on ActiveTuts+

ActiveTuts+, the “sister” Web site of ActiveDen, is part of the envato Tuts+ network, and features some of the best Flash, ActionScript and Flex tutorials on the Web in an easy-to-follow and engaging format.

Each week on ActiveDen we will provide a roundup of all the previous week’s tutorials from ActiveTuts+ as a reminder to brush-up on your Flash skills or to learn something new.

Create a Comment Form with Flash, PHP, XML and MySQL

November 13th in ActionScript, Intermediate by Jeremy Green

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Flash, PHP and MySQL together. We’ll build a simple comment form that takes entries and stores them in a database. We’ll use PHP to retrieve the entries and format the comments into XML form. Let’s get going!

Create an iPhone Inspired Switch CheckBox Using Flash and ActionScript 3.0

November 11th in ActionScript by Carlos Yanez

A CheckBox is a graphical user interface element that permits the user to make one or multiple selections from a number of options.

In this tutorial, we’ll create a Switch checkbox inspired by the iPhone Graphical User Interface. Read on to find out how!

Introduction to the HYPE ActionScript 3.0 Framework

November 9th in Workflow by Tom Green

In this tutorial I’m going to introduce you to HYPE, an ActionScript 3 framework released by Joshua Davis and Branden Hall on October 31, 2009.

The purpose of this introduction is not to get into the intricacies of the framework, but to walk you through a rather simple exercise designed to demonstrate some of the possibilities this Open Source project offers you.