What are some best practices for integrating Flash games with highscores into a PHP website?

Issue: Integrating Flash games with highscores into a PHP website requires a way to store and retrieve the highscores from a database. One common approach is to use PHP to handle the backend logic for submitting and retrieving highscores from the database. 

// Connect to the database
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "myDB";

$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

// Submit highscore to the database
$score = $_POST['score'];
$name = $_POST['name'];

$sql = "INSERT INTO highscores (name, score) VALUES ('$name', $score)";

if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) {
    echo "Highscore submitted successfully";
} else {
    echo "Error: " . $sql . "<br>" . $conn->error;
}

// Retrieve highscores from the database
$sql = "SELECT name, score FROM highscores ORDER BY score DESC LIMIT 10";
$result = $conn->query($sql);

if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
    while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
        echo "Name: " . $row["name"]. " - Score: " . $row["score"]. "<br>";
    }
} else {
    echo "No highscores found";
}

$conn->close();

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Flash highscores integration PHP website best practices

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