By vannen on

I've got a site that makes extensive use of Flash for animation. In fact it makes use of Flash for everything. There's just no way of breaking it up into tidy units and putting it into a Drupal environment without compromising it.

But what about the other way round? I need a mini-Drupal if you like - a CMS that appears in a window called by Flash.

The site doesn't need to make extensive use of Drupal, just for the news, etc.

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beejaysea’s picture

beejaysea commented

I have done this sort of thing a few times. I have a Flash guy that uses xml-rpc to pull data from Drupal. I wrote some custom services (http://drupal.org/project/services) that he can query to get various bits of data. You could make use of the views service and send back just the data for news nodes and then present them in your Flash. Some folks do this with AMFPHP. We are doing it with regular ole XML-RPC.

Hope this helps...

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vannen’s picture

vannen commented

That does sound like the thing. I'll have a play!

vickielynn’s picture

vickielynn commented

Hey, I'm doing my first flash/drupal site and am really new to Drupal as well.

THese are my main issues right now...

1) The homepage swf calls other swfs into it depending on which button inside the swf you push. It works normally on my hard drive, but when I uploaded it into the drupal site/server, the homepage swf is there but the content isn't being called. I uploaded the swf files into the same directory as the homepage swf, and then I "imported flash" via the flashnode module...so they're unpublished nodes right now. How can I make them see each other?

2) The swfs also refer to html pages. I've also uploaded those html files into the same directory as the flash files but they don't seem to see them. I haven't imported the html content into drupal in any way. These files feed some of the content into the swfs, plus the text to some of the navigation buttons, etc. How do I make the swfs see the html files? Or do I need to do this another way? Which brings me to another question, too...

3) I don't know anything about using AMFPHP or XML-RPC to call content from drupal into Flash...where do I begin??

I'm overwhelmed and spending an enormous amount of time trying to find help here at Drupal.org which I'm drowning in. I'm overwhelmed.

Thanks in advance to anyone who has time to give me some tips here.

vertexrider’s picture

vertexrider commented

I 'm new to Drupal, but as a Flasher I bought Flash with Drupal from Packt publishing. And I think that all your answers are in this book for a beginning.

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vm commented

There are groups over @ groups.drupal.org dedicated this type of thing and how they've managed it.