Hello,
We’re about to embark on a project that mixes HTML with a Flash interface.

I’m assuming we can use EE as the CMS and pull content through to the Flash from the EE database, just like any other database?

For example, we will have a ‘product range’ carousel presented via flash. This carousel will also have an HTML equivalent with each product being an EE ‘entry’.  So we just get Flash to pull from the same table?  Our client can then add, edit and remove products via EE and the Flash will automagically get updated?

Cheers

Hiya,

It has definitely been done before but not something that ExpressionEngine was designed for. There is actually a site in the Showcase which does this although personally I don’t really see the benefit of making a whole site in Flash.

From what I’ve read they used the 10CMS Flash content management system to get it all working although with weblog tags and SQL queries you could probably do the same thing if you output the data to a format that Flash recognises for loading in as variables.

Best wishes,

Mark

Thanks Mark,
This site is a mix of Flash and HTML.  Some of the pages have Flash elements on them (like a carousel) that we could do with pulling from the same CMS that drives the rest of the site.

Cheers

If your flash pulls from, say, an XML file, EE can generate that, no problem.

That is interesting.  How do I get EE to generate XML files?

Why, just like any other template. Only instead of HTML you’d be using your XML syntax.

Ok, sounds good. We’ll probably visit this when we begin build next week.

Thanks

I’ve done this on a few sites, notably http://www.mariecatribs.com. All content is pulled through a few xml files that are generated by EE. Images, PDF links, etc. The only part that isn’t EE content is the opening “splash screen”, which I got really sick of refreshing often.