Google spreadsheet and flash part 2 – A Read/Write example

Sunday, February 8th, 2009 | Actionscript 3

I’ve iterated up the previous example showing how to save data from a Google Spreadsheet, to add in the ability to load the data from the spreadsheet as well. Googles service in impressively fast, and works well with concurrent users. This is however no substitute for a proper database, and shouldn’t be used as such.

Personally i’ve got loads of great ideas on how to use this, things like adding feedback/bug reporting functionality into projects. Clients love the transparency and easy of use of the Google Spreadsheets.

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All you need to do is have a php server, download the source code, create a google spreadsheet with form functionality, be sure to publish it as well with the auto republish flag set as well, change to source code with the key from your spreadsheet and do a simple request to find the id of the worksheet.

Here’s the spreadsheet being edited. – http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pyxyLmVwUP3OtKbRWR-x3LA&hl=en

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5 Comments to Google spreadsheet and flash part 2 – A Read/Write example

lync
May 7, 2009

1.After I upload php onto the server and setup spreadsheet on google,I get this output in flash:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in \spreadsheet\GET_GoogleSpreadsheetProxy.php on line 5

what does that mean?

ps:google spreadsheet says:”Change owner feature isn’t implemented for spreadsheets yet.” when I change owner

Nash
May 13, 2009

I vote for you. You rock! Been looking for this exact set-up. Question: Any way I can pull off “reading” the spreadsheet in Flash 8.

Thanks

Andrew
June 20, 2009

There is a Flash MX version of your program?

Craig
July 29, 2009

Is there a way to update an existing cell in the spreadsheet?

Barbara
September 6, 2009

Hi!Thank you very much for this example! Do you know the reason why the spreadsheet doesn’t update since 8/13/2009?
Thanks

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