Chapter 12. Build a Drupal Five-star Voter in Flash
Although this is the final chapter in this book, you can expect anything but the typical "sum-it-all-up" theme from this chapter. Of course, we will utilize all the core lessons learned from previous chapters and add onto that knowledge by building our very own custom Drupal Service that will allow customized interaction between Flash and Drupal. This information is vital for any web site that wishes to create its own server tasks and make those services available for external web applications. Once we learn how to build a custom service, we can then apply that knowledge to interface with any subsystem within Drupal (voting, shopping carts, and so on).
Instead of discussing the necessary techniques involved to perform such feats, we will walk through the evolution of a real Flash application that requires its own custom service routine. We will do this by building our very own Flash-driven five-star voter that has the ability to rate content...