Need Help with PHP -> XML -> Flash

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submike
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Need Help with PHP -> XML -> Flash

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Just need to bounce some ideas off those with some experience.

I'm going to start a freelance website project in the next month or so. The project will be a flash website with 4-6 sections driven by an external XML document. I've done quite a few projects like this in the past. To edit the site, I showed my clients how to download the XML from FTP, edit the XML & upload through FTP. This has worked fine in the past.

However, my client would really like to have a simple online admin interface, where they could edit content. For example, they could log in and update the "contact us" section with a new mobile phone number. Also, there will be an athletes section that will have multiple athletes. Besides editing, I assume the client would like to have the option to add a new athlete or delete an existing athlete.

I've programmed a couple of sites using php, and just one that used MySQL. I'm assuming I will have to use a MySQL database to store the information. The flash movie will then call a php script that will query the database, and output a XML document for the flash movie to use. The admin interface will just be a simple HTML forms interface that will pull in the info from the database.

Those are my assumptions, and I'm not sure whether they are the right way to go. Can anyone offer any advice or links to open source apps/tutorials that accommplish something similar to this?

Thanks in advance for any help.
Mike
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Post by submike »

Should this be posted in another forum like Code?
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You need a CMS or something that has the CMS behaviour.

You may get the result of a query in a xml format, and you will have to send to flash the xml and let the to parse the file (this is for displaying issues);
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