Is it possible to have flash grab from a content pages?
I'd like to have a Flash ticker (must be in Flash), but I'd like for the user to be able to change the content in the ticker. Somethign as simple as opening a content page and editing the content.
I already know how to read from an xml with Flash. Has anyone tried this?
Flash connection
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Re: Flash connection
did you do a search?
I did... and within 2 minutes came up with the answer.
I did... and within 2 minutes came up with the answer.
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Re: Flash connection
Yes I did a search and found at least one similar question in the forums. Using CMS Made Simple as a CMS for Flash. This is the link if that is what you're talking about. http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php?topic=23778.0
Unfortunately it's not only overly complicated from what I need, it's also incomplete. The thread talks mostly about his need for code and what he needs to do in order to finish.
What I was looking for was a clean simple example of the actionScript one would code in order to grab the text from a content page. There shouldn't be any need for a PHP script for this. If the only code on the page reads "this is the text", then I simply want the Flash to find that and output it in a Dynamic Text field so that a user would read it in the text instead. I'm looking to see if anyone has done somethign that simple.
Without knowing what you found in your search, I can't tell you if what you found is any more help to me.
Unfortunately it's not only overly complicated from what I need, it's also incomplete. The thread talks mostly about his need for code and what he needs to do in order to finish.
What I was looking for was a clean simple example of the actionScript one would code in order to grab the text from a content page. There shouldn't be any need for a PHP script for this. If the only code on the page reads "this is the text", then I simply want the Flash to find that and output it in a Dynamic Text field so that a user would read it in the text instead. I'm looking to see if anyone has done somethign that simple.
Without knowing what you found in your search, I can't tell you if what you found is any more help to me.
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Re: Flash connection
and without a well researched, well explained (or even an effort thereof) post... we can't be of much help to you. Now that's a conundrum isn't it! In order for anybody to be able to provide information, they require some information at the start.Without knowing what you found in your search, I can't tell you if what you found is any more help to me.
Personally, I know the answer to this... but I'm done with this thread.
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Re: Flash connection
Couple of ways you could do this.
1. Request your page from flash with the "showtemplate=false" parameter in the URL. eg: index.php?page=page_alias&showtemplate=false. This will just show the contents of the main content block.
2. Create a new template and format it as XML and request the page as normal from flash.
Hope this helps.
1. Request your page from flash with the "showtemplate=false" parameter in the URL. eg: index.php?page=page_alias&showtemplate=false. This will just show the contents of the main content block.
2. Create a new template and format it as XML and request the page as normal from flash.
Hope this helps.
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Re: Flash connection
I'm not sure what I did to cause Calguy to be so upset with me. This is my first thread and posts to this community.
Anyway, thanks Tomgsd. I think your second plan works best for me since I already know how to communicate with Flash using XML. I'll try this and let everyone know what happened.
Anyway, thanks Tomgsd. I think your second plan works best for me since I already know how to communicate with Flash using XML. I'll try this and let everyone know what happened.
