New Flash Component: AS3 Message Board Guest Book

Guest books have been around for some time, and believe it or not, we’ve had a bunch of users asking for such a product, so we conformed and released it this week: AS3 Message Board Guest Book.

It’s useful for websites where a community is grown, be it a flash website or not. We can think of photographers websites, artists websites and much more.

It works through XML, which is filled with the information posted by the user, if valid, with the help of a PHP file.

The validation is done based on the type of content the user has to add, such as a name or an email address. The user is requested to fill all fields, and if he tries to submit incomplete information, the strokes color changes based on the value you send in the XML.

The date and time is also filled in the XML, but it’s displayed when the user returns to the website, so that there’s no need to reload the XML file for every comment submitted, thus saving bandwidth.