using exising mysql db, create flash display

I've been working with php & mysql for a while now but I'm relatively new to flash. I have a db that lists the different kinds of widgets. With php this produces a list of the various widgets, when you click an item in the list you get a picture and a desc of said widget.

But now I would like to improve this with flash. So flash shows a list of possible widgets, pulled from the db, and when you click on one, the image and description magically fade in.

Any advice on this subject would be great, at least a point in the right direction. I was looking at the recent thread between Swiss and gargoyle about the spanish (I think it's Italian) example but was a bit confused with the wierd language - action script is new to me on it's own

thanks for your feedback!
pzaz

Sounds like a bit of a tall order if you don't know flash.

I don't know if flash would really improve an application like this.

Anyway, this is how it would roughly work:

1:

USE php to make an XML file of your widgets.. something like

<allwidgets>
<widget name="bigwidget" pic="bwdige1.jpg"/>
<widget name="smallwidget" pic="small1.jpg"/>
...
</allwidgets>

2:Load the file using flash 6's XML object

3: prob turn your loaded XML into an array to make it easier to work with.

4:Generate list using info from the array and the loadMovie command to get the jpegs.

as i said, all this will be very tough work if you don't know actionscript/flash already.

*mt