RE: [Flashcoders] blog presentation flash
Judah hi - 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 My approach would be to have some PHP classes server side that talked to the CMS DB to pull out whats required. then package as XML to return to flash. so flash wouldnt have to talk directly to drupal (which can only return html basically). I guess this ends up being an XML adapter for drupal, which seems like a big project in general but might not be too bad for just say pulling out categories or news items in a set category. however nice the code is once you really get into it, drupal seems like a lot of work to pull info from, whereas wordpress seemed to have nicely document + simple database classes. if you have any docs, it would be nice to see. /dc ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] blog presentation flash
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 --- David DC Collier mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +81 (0)80 6521 9559 skype: callto://d3ntaku --- Pikkle 株式会社 http://www.pikkle.com --- ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] blog presentation flash
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. Do you need to update just text? or also images? or also display structure (columns, layout etc)? or also database structure (new catalog items, etc)? Knowing the media types in the updates, and then knowing how deeply the changes will update the presentation, can help distinguish between ftp an xml file and grab the rss types of solutions. (Towards the end you ask about a blog with a Flash front-end, which seems another thing... it's usually easy to add SWF to a weblog, and I've seen some weblogs constructed entirely out of SWF, but swf site with easy updates seems different.) jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] blog presentation flash
probably worth checking out mosxml, a version of mambo that outputs xml and has a basic flash skin in the download http://www.ciadd.co.uk/mosxml/index.php?option=contenttask=viewid=41 On 10/31/05, dc [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 --- David DC Collier mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +81 (0)80 6521 9559 skype: callto://d3ntaku --- Pikkle 株式会社 http://www.pikkle.com --- ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] blog presentation flash
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 --- David DC Collier mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +81 (0)80 6521 9559 skype: callto://d3ntaku --- Pikkle 株式会社 http://www.pikkle.com --- ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
