Users can ‘build their own’ fortune telling devices

Hopefully, my final project will incorporate many different fortune telling devices, but one of the fortune telling devices on my final project will be an interactive area, where people can build their own and access other people’s devices.

User enters name and description & 12 fortunes using a basic form and then submits the fortune teller.

If all the fields are populated, then this takes then to a personalised fortune teller, using the data they have entered.

The fortune teller ‘game’ will be built in flash and will use the 12 fortunes and display them as part of the process. This is not clear yet, it might be rather like the paper fortune telling game, where you chose numbers and colours and you are left with one fortune.

It will also list all of the fortune tellers that have been submitted by name and description and as there are no passwords all of the devices can be used by other people.

When you click on one of the names, you can use that fortune telling device.

All I really want is a database that can store some really basic information and then can be retrieved by flash.

Is PHP & mySQL really the only answer to making something truly interactive? If there are any other options, please can someone let me know!!!!