Flash provides a great interface for customizable interactions, but with typical Flash development, it's cumbersome to edit content after publishing an application. For many Flash projects, updating content after the fact isn't important. But if you want to save data or update information in your Flash application, then you're going to want to look at having some sort external data source.

External data for a Flash application can be accomplished by simply having the flash application read cookies or text files on your web server. This bare-bones approach is appropriate for some, but such an approach is pretty low-level and susceptible to bugs. If you want an application to have any sort of ongoing maintainability, then you'll want to have some sort of CMS to house your information. Because of its flexibility and widespread use, Drupal is an excellent choice for your CMS.

This tutorial is geared towards Drupal developers who may or may not have a background in Actionscript coding. You'll need to know how to install modules and be comfortable with digging into a .module file to tweak some code.