Your advice is needed! !! $ !!

What I want to accomplish is the following:
In a complete flash
site there is a members link. When the end user clicks on the
'Members' link a menu will come into view. The Menu will consist of
multiple indiviuals. The end user would be able to click on any
"member" and have their Bio load into a main clip. The Bio
would include text and images. I would like for it to be scrollable.

If their is any confussion here is a link of something similiar
if not exactly of what I want to have as a end result. />http://mastakilla.net/j2004/main.php
Any link clicked seems to
load an external swf into the main clip.
I ha

Hi all. I'm after some advice regarding the creation of photo
slideshows that can be easily updated. I'm a freelance designer and,
increasingly, my clients are asking that I design & build for them
sites that include a photo slideshow that they can update. Ordinarily
I'd use a simple XML setup but a lot of my clients are pretty
web-illiterate and they find it too complex.
I've looked at
Slideshow Pro and I like it's ability to load in images from Flickr
(something that's fairly idiot-proof and easy to use) but,
unfortunately, it seems to be limited to just 20 images.
Can
anybody help me and point me in the direction of an answer? I should
say my actionscript skills are only j

I'm an experienced PHP programming and I have some knowledge of AS3
but I feel that some things that I'm doing are a bad practice. I
believe this based on proper structure of other languages.
I find
myself using the document class kinda of like my main loop. In that, I
contain all of my processes inside of it. I don't know too much about
AS3 OOP, but it seems like this is bad practice (even in simple
applications). I know in PHP OOP you would include your classes, then
just do your processes in the main file using those classes and its
methods. I assume the AS3 equivalent for the 'main file', would be the
stage?
Links to tutorials explaining the dos and don'ts o

I'm doing a project and would like to hear your opinions.
I
want to make Integrated library system and I want to have these
folders

1. classes - where all classes will be stored
2.
templates - where all templates will be stored
3. admin - where
admin files will reside

Now is that a good organisation? if not
what would you suggest? Also is MVC a good way to go for such project?
If yes any good link that teaches from practical perspective? and Last
one is it good to make database singleton or make it base class that
all other classes that will access database extends?

Thanks
buddies!

Yes, this is homework. This is my first course in programming and
I am having a problem translating what I know I need to do into
code.

I basically need to write a progam that reads a person's
name in the following format: first name, then middle name or
initial, and then last name. The program then outputs the name in the
follow format:

last name, first name middle name.

Seems
simple enough... I got that part, but...

The program should
allow for users to not give a middle name or initial.

I've
attempted this numerous time. I'm figuring that I can create
separate functions that either takes in 2 or 3 variables but so far my
program does not wo