Thanks for putting this together and allowing others to have the search box on their sites!

What I’ve done is add the game data as an array – so each game title has its own array that contains the detials e.g. url, all the relevant details, the date of the topic, the autor, suitability and so on.

So it doesn’t actually use a database, it more constructs a database from an array as the Flash file loads.

Then when you select an option by either searching or using the drop-down boxes a new array is built from the existing array, limited to the choices you have made.

I’ll explain in a little more depth how it all works in a separate article, but it is basically a front-end for an array search.

I got ideas from the following suggestions:

http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/000069.cfm
http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/flashQueryString/
+ the functionality of the Macromedia Exchange.

My solution works with Flash 6 and later as this was the school standard when I began working with it. A faster solution would be to use the Flash DataGrid components that now come with Flash. These can be published to work in Flash 7 or later, which most schools should now have installed.

I would like to hear a more technical explanation such as how it was setup, database wise etc..

Great Stuff.