A.5 PHP Datatype Conversion

The conversion of datatypes between ActionScript and PHP is straightforward, as shown in Table A-9.

Table A-9. Flash-to-PHP datatype conversion

Flash (ActionScript)	PHP
Null	Null
Integer	Integer
Float	Double
String	String
Array	Array (associative)
Object	Object
Recordset	Resource [3]

^[3] The only supported databases are MySQL, ODBC, and PostgreSQL.

The conversion of datatypes between PHP and ActionScript is shown in Table A-10. The one kind of conversion that can be a bit confusing has to do with PHP arrays. Refer to "Datatype Conversions" in Chapter 9 for details.

Table A-10. PHP-to-Flash datatype conversion

PHP	Flash (ActionScript)
Null	Null
Integer	Integer
Double	Float
String	String
Array (indexed)	Array
Array (associative)	Object
Object	Object
Resource [4]	Recordset

^[4] The only supported databases are MySQL, ODBC, and PostgreSQL.