Anyone use a CMS + Flash? 1616 Responses

Last post: 3 months ago | Thread started: Aug 21, 08, 9:53 a.m.

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• coldy

  I havent found any other CMS threads that answer my question so....

  Does anyone use any of the many popular pre-made CMS's with their flash sites? Is this possible? Ive had a look and none of them seem to offer the XML support that flash would need.

  Im very confident with AS3 + XML, and Id like to start being able to integrate a CMS for clients, but know very little about PHP or any of that server side sh*t, nor do I want to.
  any advice?

  cheers

  Aug 21, 08, 9:53 a.m. – Permalink

• SigDesign

  We have a custom-made CMS here called Slate: http://slateinfo.blogs.wvu.edu/

  It's been integrated with Slideshow Pro and Flash, and it's going to be released for open source soon, hopefully.

  • OMG WVU! I used to love visiting friends that went there when i was in school. good times– section_014

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 9:55 a.m. – Permalink

• coldy

  thanks looks cool, Ill keep an eye out for it.

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 9:59 a.m. – Permalink

• era4O4

  Hey Coldy, We could do it (the PHP) for you. Shoot me an email sometime.

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 10:05 a.m. – Permalink

• recpos

  Check this one out. Some friends of mine developed it.
  http://www.unwrong.com/products/…

  • Niiiiiiice, ILovedust is one of your client's friend, =)– Mishga

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 10:05 a.m. – Permalink

• coldy

  era404, the idea is that I do the whole process myself :)

  unwrong looks good, not much info on how to develop a site for it though.

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 10:10 a.m. – Permalink

• acescence

  a lot of blogs (like wordpress) use xml-rpc for feeds. just search for an xml-rpc client for flash (there are a few) and use that to get your post data as xml

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 10:16 a.m. – Permalink

• craighooper

  Flashloaded has a Flash CMS called "fCMS" and "fCMS Pro".

  http://www.flashloaded.com/flash…

  We've demo'd it, and it's a bit of a bitch to use, to be blunt.

  What is needed is something that connects to, and updates (in realtime) any Flash site, w/ minimal headache (all w/ minor best-practice on the part of the Flash designer/developer).

  fCMS might be the best solution out there at the moment, lumps and all.

  Another Flash-based CMS for commercial use is Flashblocks. Had the same experience w/ Flashblocks as we did w/ fCMS...

  http://www.flashblocks.com

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 10:17 a.m. – Permalink

• Mishga

  Hey coldy, why don't you hire a coder to make your CMS?

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 10:28 a.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  It's amazing that there isn't a good solution for this already

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 10:30 a.m. – Permalink

• coldy

  thanks craig, those two I have seen and along with others they provide a kind of standard page loading type flash content management that I almost guarantee wont work for me when Im getting up to text animation craziness....

  The sites Ive seen them work on may as well be html.

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 10:32 a.m. – Permalink

• Mishga

  I already knew all these CMS and none of them suit my needs, i usually load into Flash text and images through XML, so the best option was to design the CMS layout and hire a coder. Voilà!

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 10:35 a.m. – Permalink

• coldy

  yes xml-rpc looks great. I need something the client can use to change the content as well if Im correct?

  I have had some success in the past using wordpress, then called database requests from PHP, which then parses it into XML. But the WP CMS is overkill for a lot of what Im doing and its not built for the type of site structure I normally implement.

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 10:36 a.m. – Permalink

• coldy

  how much would a php programmer charge, for the back end of a really simple site. Just photo gallery and main section text changes?

  • why not use a existing CMS and output XML. it would be wicked easy.– klipklap1/3

    is that possible? I havent sen that feature on any of the CMS websites– coldy2/3

    ExpressionEngine can work like a record editor and just pump out XML however you want to format it.– klipklap3/3

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 10:37 a.m. – Permalink

• skelly_b

  You can also parse XHTML in flash just like you do XML. Have the CMS generate the pages, then load them into flash when needed. Synch this up with SWFAddress and you have slick, search-engin friendly solution.

  • sounds like a good option, Ill look into it. It would have to have the standard html version of the site in conjunction though no?– coldy

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 10:47 a.m. – Permalink

• Naygon

  I'm pretty sure they're not selling this but the Firstborn FbCMS demos is well done.

  http://www.firstbornmultimedia.c…

  

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  Dog-earAug 22, 08, 9:18 a.m. – Permalink

• d_rek

  I worked on something very similiar to what you're talking about. It wasn't the most difficult thing but can be challenging if you don't have a lot of background with scripting and code.

  Basically we had the flash site done in AS 2.0 (essentially an empty shell) that parsed an XML doc using xml2object class that was generated by our CMS that used php/mysql.

  We built it all from the ground up, with the exception of the xml2object class - someone else wrote that.

  

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  Dog-earAug 22, 08, 9:29 a.m. – Permalink