16.3. Creating Dynamic Flash Movies
Up to now you have seen how to generate static images or documents. However, for highly professional Web sites it can be interesting to generate Flash movies on-the-fly. Dynamic movies can be an impressive feature and will help you to sell your products easily.
16.3.1. Installation
To work with dynamic Flash movies, you can use PHP's Ming interface, which can be downloaded from http://www.opaque.net/ming/. In this book we used Ming 0.2a. This module is still in an early stage of development, but developers are working hard to improve the module. It is already possible to implement good-looking movies, and you can expect even better versions of Ming in the future.
To install the module, you can either download ...
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