Flash and Perl for high scores?

Does anyone know of a decent tutorial on how to collect data for a high score table for Flash please?

Does anyone have any experience they could share?

I would like to know if an additional web service has to be paid for too.

IPete2.

This is very well documented in the supplied Flash Documentation under the heading "Using HTTP to connect to server-side scripts" , it's really quite simple. Of course you will need some serverside php and a database but they are the norm with most ISP nowadays.

Flash can interface with a (server side) database, so you can store your scores and such in a MySQL/MS SQL/Access database, depending on what your web host can provide you with.