content management systems and flash?

[mal pacino]

Ok, scenario - we build a flash website for a client, and on the site there are two main pages that the client would want to update on a regular basis (weekly)

What would be your solution for this? Ok I know that xml and text files can be used for this, but lets assume now that our client is an eighty year old who has no possible way of opening these files and doing it without screwing the whole thing up completely - is there a fool proof way to do this with flash at all - a simple file like a word document with no html type of tabs - that can be simply typed into - saved and uploaded to the server to overwrite the existing file?

There must be a way because otherwise it would mean contacting the designer every single week with updates and thus making a huge bill at the end of the year - and lots of boring work for an already busy flash web designer.

Any thoughts on this dilema? it must be happening all the time, this sort of thing

Thank you.

[tg]

build a form for updating the data.

[mal pacino]

Thats like saying - to get to the moon, "just build a rocket" :)

any tutorials, guidance?

[Timmee_3Styler]

easy way?

give them a txt file and have them update that :)

harder way?

Write a form using php, asp..etc.. that writes to a text file the contents they need.

a bit more advanced?

write a form using php, asp..etc..that writes the data to a database :)

[edit]

best way?

hire me :cool:

[mal pacino]

timmee,

thanks but like i said txt files can cause problems because the have things like this that can get deleted < >

I once saw a way of doing this using a dummy swf file that could be opened with an input text field inside it that acted as the homepage - this could be typed into, and then uploaded to the server where it replaced the content in the real homepage without need for opening any text or xml files. I cant find that tutorial though :(

as for the database stuff - thats a secret i'm finding out - never met anyone ever on any forum ever who would share that stuff.

looked on amazon too and no books i can find for this either.
Using flash and databases is the closest held secret in web site design :) or should that be :(

[vpsedillo]

i think the best way is going for PHP with text files or mySQL...im interested in your idea...a flash-based CMS... :D

hope somehow can show us a sample bout this....

[Timmee_3Styler]

I dont think that idea would work because that dummy swf stilll need a way to store the information ;)

[vpsedillo]

u could always use a text file for storing the data then have php do the writing and have the SWF call the text file....it can be done right?

hehe, correct me if im wrong... :D

[mal pacino]

timmy - yeah the dummy swf file had a php file with the tutorial but i lost the link (which i was sure i'd put in my favourites ages ago) It was so easy for a client to use it was great.

I'm gonna search again for it :)

[FeedzH]

Still best way to do is by php with normal html form. I can do it for You if you want. I takes couple of minutes. :)

[mal pacino]

feedzH

That would be great yeah - I learn quickly when I have sample files to look at. Would you include the simple fla with that also please?

Thank you.

[rustys27851]

Here's one: http://www.ego7.com/
Do a google search (flash cms) too - there are more out there.

[mal pacino]

thanks rusty - i'll look

is feedzh doing one?

[mal pacino]

in fact feedzh - if you misunderstood what i meant and thought it was for html, i'd be interested to see that too :)

[yank crime]

this is what i need... soooooo bad.

i've spent non stop the last three days searching the web and downloading about 30 different cms systems.

i'm a designer, and although i can do a bit with action script and html/css i'm a moron with any other code.

i'm completely overwhelmed.

i need a simple php form so that a client can update his news section of a flash site i'm building for him. i'd also like to avoid using any sort of database, and just have the php write to the .txt

i've done several sites where the client just edits the .txt file that flash calls in, but i need this to write to the .txt file, and not replace the old news, but add to it... and be able to write classes so that css will aply... ie: different fields have different classes the date as class 1, posted by class 2, and news class 3... whatev.

i'm at the end of my rope. as much as i'd like to learn how to do this myself i can't find any decent tutorials. if anyone knows how to do this, could you get a price quote on what it would cost to have you build it for me.

email me: matt@brandtson.net

thanks!

-matt

[mal pacino]

I know exactly how you feel yank :(

good luck with it - if you find out how, please write back and let me know.

[silentium]

We made a CMS in Flash for a client we told him using php would be btter he wnted we made the shitt.
Domain is now offline

But a team of 5 people worked a week on it.