Is it possible to make a database in Flash?

[avinsinanan]

Hello,
This is just a question.I am not trying to make the following just yet. I just wanna know if it is possible.

Ok i want to make a web page in Flash. It will have a text field. Whne I type in a persons name it will search a data base and pull up the person name as well as Phone Number and Age and Address. If the person does not exist it returns a message.

Is it posible to have the list of names, age and address in a NotePad file or Excel and Flash could search this database?

Is this possible? Of does the database have to be in Flash format as well.
Am using Flash 5.

Any suggestions?

Yours Respectfully
Avin Sinanan

 

[FlashTag]

You are going to have to call a php, asp or cgi script
to make queries then bring the results into flash.
I don’t think you can open files and read or write
directly to them from Flash

 

[avinsinanan]

Thanks Flashtag,
Anyidea where I can start looking for these php,CGI or ASP scripts on the net. Are there any pre-written scripts that I can use.
And how do I call a script?

Thanks for the input mate.

I assume this is a very huge topic all together.

Yours Respectfully
Avin Sinanan