Mike Potter

We've all seen Google finance, and the great job that it does at mixing HTML content with Flash content, as seen on company stock quotes. Google has done a great job at using Flash where it makes the most sense, in the graphs for company quotes, with HTML where it makes sense (linking to news items). Today, I'll show you how to build your own Google-finance type site, using a combination of Ajax, JSON, PHP and Flex / Flash. And, best of all, we'll do it all for free. In this example, we'll grab data from a Feedburner feed, and then show the hits to that feed in a graph, over time. We'll bring in the RSS information from our blog feed, and when we click on the items in the graph, they'll highlight the RSS feed items for that day. To complete this tutorial, you'll need the following software / accounts: 1.  Note: You can perform this same tutorial without Flex Charting.... (more)