Comments on: Using Google Spreadsheet forms with Flash

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:50:56 +0000

Is this working? I’ve been trying to do this, but I can’t. Thanks for your help

By: adi imam pratomo

adi imam pratomo — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:26:26 +0000

Love this post! Thanks for this. I

By: admin

admin — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:47:15 +0000

I’d try the latest example i’ve made http://www.adenforshaw.co.uk/?p=196

Sprout looks quite funky, it looks like they’ve done the sort of thing i’ve done here with the google forms.
I’m doing something kind of similar to sprout which is partly why i’m doing all these proof of concept examples and giving them away for free.

By: denis

denis — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:58:30 +0000

Very interesting, but doesnt work in this moment?!?

do you see Sprout can import a Google Form?
how does it work??

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By: admin

admin — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:42:08 +0000

It’s really a one sided way of storing data. There are ways of retrieving the data from a google spreadsheet. You’d have to “screen scrape”, here’s an example: http://matthewsteele.wordpress.com/2007/11/03/screen-scraping-google-spreadsheets-exported-as-html/

To be honest it sounds like you’d be better off just using an off the shelf comments/message board system plugged into a database and save your time for doing something more interesting, rather than reinventing the wheel.

By: Ugo

Ugo — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:21:09 +0000

Thanks for this. I’m considering using this for the comments/message board system of a flash based blog. I have a couple of questions though:

How secure is this method? Is it best to try and implement spam filtering on the flash side or from the php/server side?

I’m quite familiar with AS3 but have less than a basic understanding of php. Is there a sample code for retrieving data from the google spread sheet to be sent back to flash?