How to setup a client updatable site?

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Rusherific - 22 Jan 2007 20:34 GMT

I apologize if this has been covered already, but I'm not sure where to start
because I don't know the proper setup for this. I've been making Flash sites
for a while and am pretty comfortable with it, including actionscripting, but I
have a real estate client that wants to be able to update their site with new
properties themselves. Obviously a simple HTML page would be easiest, but I
wanted to find out how this would be done in flash. Most of the examples I see
are for linking to xml data tables and the like which doesn't seem to be
exactly what I'm looking for. How would I go about making an "area" in flash
in which they could load a new picture and a couple paragraphs? Would I have
Flash look for a whole html page, or define a picture and paragraph objects
that are individually replaced, protecting the formatting/design? Is this
possible/a good way to go about it?

Thanks in advance,
Devin

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The Feldkircher - 23 Jan 2007 12:11 GMT

Hi

Who will be hosting the site, you or the client?

This is a feature often seen in profi sites - whereby the customer can upload
content as and when, I think your best approach is to define a Flash page only
for the customer so they can enter the new content - drag and drop - cut and
paste whichever you like. But you will still need a method of ftp-ing the
content to the net from Flash.

I wouldn't dismiss XML completely this is the backbone of most sites, creating
an XML file would give you complete control over the clients ability to create
content and send it to the appropriate area of the site.

Hope it helps

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MotionMaker - 23 Jan 2007 12:45 GMT

In addition to The Feldkircher advice you would need to learn server side
scripting like PHP. You would use the Flash 8
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/00002204.html and
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/00002226.html to accomplish the
uploading of the graphic images. You also can use
thehttp://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/00002225.html to send along text
data although it is not documented so if you go that far, you may want to
search the Actoinscript and this forum as the question has been asked often but
as a hint you use the ?var=the text as part of the load method url.

On the server side you need probably a database to store the link information,
the text and the url of the uploaded image. Then Flash can request a server
script to query that list to provide the user view.

Your goal is ambitious and I would rate it intermediate plus scripting skill
both on Flash and server side.

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How to setup a client updatable site?