Well, today We reached a thousand downloads of the pre-releases of the Flashfeed extension. I'm currently a bit busy freelancing but I hope to release a new version soon. I've found a little bug when feeding frontpage xml. Anyway, that's all
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Flash splash file for main page?
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Monday, 13 July 2009 07:48
ssnobben
Hi
I wonder if I can use your Flashfeed for open up a flash image file that open up like a splash (dont know if this is the right name of it) image covering the whole main Joomla page?
I then want to make some menus inside the flash page with links to Joomla menus on top of it.
Is this possible without messing with templates and module settings?
rgds
A note on XML handling
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Wednesday, 05 August 2009 03:51
Mike
Hi,
First off, thank you for taking the time to write plugin's like these. I am a Flex developer, but have only a little knowledge of PHP so it saves a ton of time.
I have found a bug though in the way the php parses the xml. Any node which is expected to contain HTML (valid XHTML or not), has it's tags escaped into > and < (plus other invalid chars). These nodes should be allowed to be left as is by wrapping the node in a so that it can either be further processed as XML or assigned to an htmlText property of either a TextField or TextArea.
I am in the process of building a flex front-end using your xml plugin as the transport layer. If you have an interest, once it's far enough along I can share the data layer which is a series of nested collections, eg: Sections > Categories > Articles (it would be easy enough to convert to low level arrays or to use only in flash) converted from the raw data -but it still uses XML as the backbone so it would be easy enough to extend this to send request packets as well.
Best Regards,
Mike Petty
To Mike
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Wednesday, 05 August 2009 18:53
Rune
Hey Mike
That sounds great! I'd be glad to see any projects that use the component and how you worked it out.
Can you tell me which fields you are pasting HTML into? If an XML-node contains HTML, you have to wrap it in a CDATA tag, just as I do in the article text node. All other nodes does not have the CDATA part, so if you put HTML into these, you will get a problem yes.
Please get back to me with a link so I can update the component so it works for you :-)
Thanks!
.FLA examples
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Saturday, 16 January 2010 20:36
John Lewis
Hi and first of all THANK YOU for this. Amazing stuff. However I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to using Flash & AS3 for anything more than basic tasks.
Therefore I could really use checking out the example .FLA file to find out how to implement the call from Joomla to Flash. I keep getting an unexpected file format, which I take it means files are CS4 (I'm on CS3). Do you have a CS3 version of the .FLA? I really need this for a project I'm attempting.
Thanks in advance.
sorted this bit now
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Tuesday, 26 January 2010 13:44
John Lewis
but still could use a working example of how you print the XML to something visible.
Please consider making a small donation to the development of the Flashfeed extension, this blog and my other Open Source projects. The products are all free and developed in my spare time when I'm not studying. In other words, help me buy pasta and ketchup.
I wonder if I can use your Flashfeed for open up a flash image file that open up like a splash (dont know if this is the right name of it) image covering the whole main Joomla page?
I then want to make some menus inside the flash page with links to Joomla menus on top of it.
Is this possible without messing with templates and module settings?
rgds
First off, thank you for taking the time to write plugin's like these. I am a Flex developer, but have only a little knowledge of PHP so it saves a ton of time.
I have found a bug though in the way the php parses the xml. Any node which is expected to contain HTML (valid XHTML or not), has it's tags escaped into > and < (plus other invalid chars). These nodes should be allowed to be left as is by wrapping the node in a so that it can either be further processed as XML or assigned to an htmlText property of either a TextField or TextArea.
I am in the process of building a flex front-end using your xml plugin as the transport layer. If you have an interest, once it's far enough along I can share the data layer which is a series of nested collections, eg: Sections > Categories > Articles (it would be easy enough to convert to low level arrays or to use only in flash) converted from the raw data -but it still uses XML as the backbone so it would be easy enough to extend this to send request packets as well.
Best Regards,
Mike Petty
That sounds great! I'd be glad to see any projects that use the component and how you worked it out.
Can you tell me which fields you are pasting HTML into? If an XML-node contains HTML, you have to wrap it in a CDATA tag, just as I do in the article text node. All other nodes does not have the CDATA part, so if you put HTML into these, you will get a problem yes.
Please get back to me with a link so I can update the component so it works for you :-)
Thanks!
Therefore I could really use checking out the example .FLA file to find out how to implement the call from Joomla to Flash. I keep getting an unexpected file format, which I take it means files are CS4 (I'm on CS3). Do you have a CS3 version of the .FLA? I really need this for a project I'm attempting.
Thanks in advance.