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Re: SS backend for Flash site: is this possible?

stuntmax — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:46:19 +1200

I would know how can I use this video player on Silverstripe?

http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?page=wizard&example=13

Thanx

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Re: SS backend for Flash site: is this possible?

vcmusic42 — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:48:45 +1200

Thanks for the replies...I'm very excited about the prospect of still being able to use SS for this.

I checked out AMFPHP and downloaded some examples...but just so I'm clear, would AMFPHP be used to help SS and Flash communicate, or is it a way of bypassing Silverstripe?

I'd like to figure this out, but I'm not a coder. I'm considering taking a course in PHP and I know some online tutorials in MySQL and Actionscript would be useful, but even with all that, I'll still be lightyears behind everyone else. I'd be willing to invest a few weeks delving into this new material, but many of the tutorials linked from the AMFPHP site were outdated, and I wouldn't begin to know how to take it from the "Hello World" step to the type of event lists and news I can do in Silverstripe.

Is this integration of AMFPHP, SS and Flash something a freelancer would be able to tackle? (Through mailing lists, Scriptlance, etc.).

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Re: SS backend for Flash site: is this possible?

ChevronX — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:29:26 +1200

*rubs hands Silverlight*

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Re: SS backend for Flash site: is this possible?

Sean — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:04:14 +1200

You might want to check out AMFPHP for this one

http://www.amfphp.org/

It allows flash to get PHP objects and classes, very handy!

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Re: SS backend for Flash site: is this possible?

Ingo — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:31:48 +1200

Flash-driven frontends are generally not a problem for Silverstripe, see http://www.californiawomen.org/ and http://thelowdown.co.nz/ for good examples.

Say you want to output all children for a specific page as XML for parsing in flash (in Page_Controller):

function childrenasxml() {
$pages = $this->dataRecord->Children();
return $this->customise(array('Pages'=>$pages))->renderWith('Pages_xml');
}

the Pages_xml.ss template:

<pages>
<% control Pages %>
<page>
<title>$Title</title>
</page>
<% end_control %>
</pages>

call via mydomain.com/<mypageurl>/childrenasxml

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SS backend for Flash site: is this possible?

vcmusic42 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:44:13 +1200

Simple question...I just need to know if I'm on crack or totally off the mark with this one. I ran across a forum post (on another site) where someone mentioned they were trying to implement a Silverstripe-run site that displayed in Flash. I don't just mean a Flash include, I mean pretty much the whole thing in Flash.

(yes, I realize many of us still hate Flash for its accessibility & SEO issues and other grievances, but I'm just curious).

I have a soft spot in my heart for SS and have been very impressed with its flexibility over the past few months, but since this is a site for a musician, I'm struggling with how to present the creative content, and now I'm torn between the two (Flash vs. non-Flash).

I was assuming the best I could do regarding updating dynamic content in Flash would be a text file/xml. But could SS somehow be implemented in this as well?

Any feedback from those "in the know" is greatly appreciated.

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