We've done several sites using WordPress strictly as the CMS and
bypassing a lot of the "blog" features of the front end (comments,
etc.).
It shouldn't be too difficult to wrangle WP's template tags in your
own PHP scripts to output to your Flash interface. This goes along
with Judah's point about the site being sort of a hybrid with Flash
as the visitor's UI, but using HTML as the CMS UI.
Examples of the HTML sites we've done with WP as the CMS include:
• http://www.uvm.edu/webct/
• http://www.uvm.edu/blogging/
• http://www.uvm.edu/~bio1and2/
These all allow for the site admin/owner to update the content using
WP's administrator tools and simply make use of the template tags to
generate an entirely different interface for the visitor.
HTH.
-Rob
On Oct 31, 2005, at 2:48 PM, Judah Frangipane wrote:
Hi dc,
I started a Flash UI for drupal project a while ago. After my
research I
figured you could do a Flash front end to display data but it would be
difficult to do the data entry. So the option would be a mixed site
with
Flash to display content and HTML to create it. I came to the
conclusion
that Drupal needed an xml api to pull in straight from the index.php
page otherwise I would have had to write my own xml api or parse the
html in an xml object. At the time (~Feb, 05) someone said they had
made
an xml api but it was not ready to be released to the public. My
conclusion is that you can easily enough use Flash for sections of the
site template but not the whole thing. Looking at it now it may take
just as much time to setup flash remoting and pull in data from the
drupal database or a custom database. The only advantage of drupal at
this point is using the editors and login system already built into
it.
I still have the design documents (rough drafts) if you are
interested. HTH
Judah
dc wrote:
I need to do a product site which is viewed in flash, but want to
use a
blogging system to manage the content updates.
seems like wordpress has well documented DB apis etc to pull the post
content out of;
has anyone seen other blogging systems that someone has written a
flash
presentation layer on top of? are there any open source projects
in this
direction?
I like Drupal's UI as a way to input content, but the API is a
little much
to pull data out of ...
I havent looked at mambo, but it may work.
I could also use a wiki, as the site content is not really -timeline-
oriented, but most wiki systems seem a little too free-form with
the data.
Thanks!
/dc
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