Flex 3 or Flash Builder 4 for development of Church management system.

Question

hello, i am a learner of flex 3 builder and i have downloaded the Flash Builder beta 2. i have been experimenting with it for a while, i have been given the task to develop a church management system for my church.

Because i am new to both technologies, i wanted advice actually as to which will be fastest to build such an application. The application is going to pull data from a MySql database, so its generally going to be a CRUD interface with some charts and ability to generate reports as well. Will be very grateful for an immediate answer.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Go with Flash builder, since it's just the newer version of Flex builder and much easier to use. That is, of course, if you want to make it in Flash/Flex/AIR. There are other options as well.

Answer 2

Hey Frank,

As one of the commentors noted, you can't talk directly from Flex/Flash to a MySQL database. If you're building a CMS you might want to start with something like Drupal. Drupal has a fairly easy way to integrate Flash/Flex via the Drupal Services module - http://devzone.zend.com/article/2660

That should make it easy to add some interactive charts or a dashboard built in Flex while Drupal will do the work of talking to a database and managing content.

As for the original question, I'd use Flash Builder 4. It's released as of today - http://www.adobe.com/products/flashbuilder/ - and includes functionality like a network monitor and wizards to get you up and running with PHP and Flex.

=Ryan

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